FEUD DURING BASKETBALL GAME LEADS TO SHOOTING

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 26, 1992                   TAG: 9202260274
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Medium
FEUD DURING BASKETBALL GAME LEADS TO SHOOTING
A 20-year-old man was in surgery Tuesday evening after being shot in the back and the right hand after a pickup basketball game at the town Recreation Center.
Blacksburg police charged Marshall E. Williamson III, 22, of Nugget Ridge Apartments in Christiansburg in the malicious wounding of Richard Adams and with using a gun to commit a felony.
Williamson was arrested after police pursued a car to Christiansburg. The car, with one flat rear tire, was stopped on North Franklin Street near Richardson-Horne Funeral Home.
Capt. Bill Brown gave this account of the incident:
Police were called to the parking lot of the Recreation Center on Patrick Henry Drive at 6:16 p.m. to investigate a shooting.
Witnesses told police that Adams and another man had a confrontation during a basketball game. There was pushing and shoving, but the game continued. After the game, Adams and other players went to the parking lot, where the man blocked Adams from getting into his truck to leave, witnesses said. Words and shoves were exchanged, then Adams was shot in the hand with a .25-caliber automatic pistol.
Adams was shot in the back as he ran across the parking lot, Brown said.
The assailant got in a car and left the area, witnesses told police. People in the parking lot yelled for someone to call the police and were able to get the car's license number, which helped police begin chase quickly. The car was stopped about nine minutes later, police said.
The woman who was driving the car was being interviewed by police, Brown said. Williamson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond.
Adams was still in surgery shortly before 10 p.m. but Brown said a bullet had been removed from his back. The other bullet entered went through his hand.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB