Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, September 9, 1995                   TAG: 9509110062
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: STAFFORD                                LENGTH: Medium

TEEN CHARGED WITH ARRANGING OWN SHOOTING

Christopher P. Emond, 18, of Stafford County, is accused of hiring a man to shoot him with a .22-caliber rifle on Aug. 30, said Detective Jeff DeBord of the county sheriff's office. Emond was being held in the Stafford County jail Friday.

Emond was treated and released from a hospital the day he was shot. He was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and soliciting to commit a felony, county Sheriff Ralph Williams said.

Jason A. Morris, 21, of Stafford, was charged the day after the incident with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and conspiracy to commit a malicious wounding.

Paul A. Carr, Jr., 28, of Fauquier County, is accused of helping Emond hire Morris. Carr was arrested at his home Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and soliciting a felony in the incident, Williams said. Morris and Carr are free on bond.

According to DeBord, Emond told friends before the shooting about a militia that conducted paramilitary exercises in the wooded areas of northern Stafford County and the Quantico Marine Corps base. The militia does not exist, but federal investigators heard of his stories and asked to meet with him, Debord said.

DeBord said Emond planned the shooting to make the investigators believe his stories.

``The story basically mushroomed on him, and it became one of those things where he told one fib to cover up another,'' DeBord said.

The sheriff's office would not say how much money Emond promised to pay Morris.