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

DATE: TUESDAY, November 2, 1993                   TAG: 9311020160
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

2 MUSICIANS CHARGED IN SEPARATE SHOOTINGS

Flavor Flav of rap group Public Enemy was arrested Monday, accused of shooting at a neighbor in a dispute authorities say may have started over the rapper's girlfriend.

The musician, whose real name is William Drayton, was to be arraigned today on attempted murder and weapon possession charges, police said. He was ordered held without bail.

The incident occurred a day after another prominent rapper, Tupac Shakur, was arrested in the shooting of two off-duty police officers in Atlanta.

Shakur, who was released on bail Monday, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. The officers were released from a hospital Monday.

- Associated Press

Memo: NOTE: Shorter version ran in Metro edition.

by CNB