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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 16, 1995                   TAG: 9508160091
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GUNMAN HIJACKS CAR IN ROANOKE

A 20-year-old woman had stopped at Westside Boulevard and Salem Turnpike Northwest about 7:25 p.m. when a man across the street waved to her.

The man walked to the woman's car and asked for a ride. When she refused, he pulled a handgun from his waistband and ordered her from the car, police said. He smashed the vent glass, and the woman fled the car. She was not injured.

Police recovered the car Monday in the 3600 block of Salem Turnpike Northwest. No one has been arrested.