Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, August 3, 1993                   TAG: 9308030323
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
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17-YEAR-OLD BOY INDICTED IN SLAYING AT HOUSING PROJECT

Corey Anthony Payne was named in an indictment returned in Roanoke Circuit Court.

He is accused of killing Ivory F. Williams, 29, of Roanoke, the night of March 24 on Centre Avenue, adjacent to the Lansdowne housing project.

Several motorists spotted Williams lying face down on a sidewalk about 2:45 a.m. He had been shot at least four times in the chest and leg.

A witness at an earlier hearing testified that on the night of the killing, he and Payne were riding in a rental car through Lansdowne, where they both lived.

After spotting Williams on the street, Payne approached him and asked about some money that was owed to him, the witness testified.

Williams was then shot four times with a chrome-plated handgun. When police arrived, they were told that two men had been seen fleeing the scene.

Payne was arrested three weeks later and charged with murder.

A judge in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court ruled in May that Payne should be tried as an adult. He appealed that decision to Circuit Court, where a judge upheld the ruling.

Payne was the 11th Roanoke teen-ager to be charged with murder since 1990.

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