MAN ADMITS GUILT IN STOP IN ROBBERY

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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 16, 1993                   TAG: 9304160140
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MIKE HUDSON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium
MAN ADMITS GUILT IN STOP IN ROBBERY
A Pennsylvania man admitted his guilt Thursday in a November convenience-store robbery that resulted in a 12-hour manhunt by Botetourt County law officers.
Carl Wayne Morrison, 28, of Landisburg, Pa., pleaded guilty Thursday to two charges of armed robbery, two charges of use of a firearm and one charge of burglary.
He will be sentenced June 7.
About 7 a.m. on Nov. 22, Morrison walked into the Stop In at the U.S. 220-Interstate 81 interchange with a a handgun. He made the clerk give him cash.
As Morrison fled to a car, Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Mullins pulled in front of the vehicle. Morrison jumped out and ran off across a field.
Later, a woman on Tinker Mountain Road called 911 and said a man had just come to her door with a gun. He told her that somebody was shooting at him and he needed to use her car.
The woman gave him the wrong set of keys, locked her door and called.
As Morrison tried the keys, Sheriff's Capt. Gary Guilliams drove up. Morrison ran off again and made his way to the Appalachian Trail.
Later he got off the trail, flagged down a driver and hitched a ride to the Wal-Mart in Salem.
When the motorist returned home, he heard about the manhunt and told authorities that he had driven the man to the Wal-Mart.
Guilliams and Sheriff Reed Kelly figured that Morrison was cold and hungry and had found a motel room.
They checked at the motel across the street, found Morrison there and arrested him.
Morrison didn't put up a fight. He told law officers he had thrown the gun down a groundhog hole.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB