Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 23, 1994 TAG: 9411230148
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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WISE - The estate administrator for a man killed in a triple slaying has filed a $1million lawsuit against the estate of the alleged killer.
Barbara Clark, administrator for the estate of shooting victim Gary Dwayne Hall, filed a motion Monday for judgment against the estate of Olaf Farmer of Appalachia.
Authorities say Farmer, 72, went on a shooting spree Nov.10 at the Exeter home of Hall's father-in-law, Lee Roy Robinette. Hall, 26; his wife, Doris Hall, 23; and Doris Hall's sister, Eva Robinette, 21, were killed. Lee Roy Robinette was injured.
Farmer - who apparently had been dating Eva Robinette - returned to his home and killed himself, authorities said.
The motion for judgment, filed in Wise County Circuit Court, says the action against Farmer's estate is being brought on behalf of surviving beneficiaries - Hall's 3-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son.
- Associated Press
Miller won't seek budget office post
RICHMOND - Jim Miller, who lost this year's Republican U.S. Senate nomination to Oliver North, withdrew Tuesday from consideration to become director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Miller said he has been approached about seeking the Senate nomination in 1996.
``If I felt I could make a difference and had a chance of winning, I would give it serious consideration,'' Miller said.
He said he will form two political-action committees, on the state and national levels, and will help raise money and campaign for Republican candidates for the General Assembly next year.
The Senate seat is held by Republican John Warner, who angered many Virginia Republicans by supporting independent Marshall Coleman instead of North in the Nov. 8 election. Democratic Sen. Charles Robb won a second term, and some Republicans blame Warner for North's loss.
Warner has said he will seek a fourth term.
- Associated Press
Man charged as accessory in killings
RICHMOND - Bond was set at $75,000 Tuesday for a Richmond resident charged with helping a man accused of killing five people in a housing project apartment last month.
Barry Scott, 27, was arraigned in Richmond Circuit Court after surrendering to authorities Monday. He is charged with five felony counts of being an accessory before the fact to capital murder, two counts of being an accessory before the fact to felonious assault and seven related firearms charges. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
Scott is accused of helping Christopher C. Goins enter the apartment of Daphne Jones, 29, on Oct. 14.
Goins, 20, is accused of killing Jones and three of her children - Nicole, 9, David, 4 and Robert, 3 - and Jones' friend, James Randolph Jr., 35.
Jones' two other children - Tamika, 14, and Kenya, 18 months - were injured in the attack and are now in protective custody. The fetus Tamika was carrying died.
Goins was arrested last week by the FBI in a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment after eluding a nationwide manhunt for more than a month. He is fighting extradition to Richmond.
- Associated Press
Worker electrocuted in backhoe accident
WILLIAMSBURG - A construction worker was electrocuted Tuesday in James City County when a backhoe touched a 19,000-volt overhead power line.
Albert Pondexter, 35, of Marlinton, W.Va., was on the ground guiding an iron pipe being moved by the backhoe when the accident occurred about 9:20 a.m., said James City County Fire Department District Chief John Martin.
The backhoe's boom hit a power line, sending current through the boom, the pipe and Pondexter, said Roy Ward, a safety methods supervisor at Virginia Power. Pondexter was pronounced dead at Williamsburg Community Hospital.
The construction company, Jack L. Massie Contractor Inc., was installing a sewer line, Martin said.
- Associated Press
Robertson group to run flying hospital
VIRGINIA BEACH - A medical relief group founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said it has purchased a jumbo jet to convert into a flying hospital.
The jet, acquired through a group of Canadian bankers, will be equipped to handle general family medicine and outpatient surgery, the same services Operation Blessing's medical teams offer around the world.
- Associated Press
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