Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 1, 1995 TAG: 9511010037
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Police gave this account:
Between 11 p.m. Sunday and midnight, four men forced their way through a window of a house in the 1100 block of Morton Avenue. Once inside, the men repeatedly asked the residents where the money was. Two men were described as carrying pistols, while the other two appeared to be carrying sawed-off shotguns.
One of the men hit one resident, Jody P. Boudreaux, 19, with a pistol and held a 3-year-old girl at gunpoint. A woman at the house gave them $80 she had in her car. The assailants ransacked the house and left.
Boudreaux declined treatment at the scene, police say.
Three hours earlier, a 23-year-old Southwest Roanoke man was pistol-whipped and robbed by three men who broke into the house he was visiting.
About 8:35 p.m. Sunday, police say, James Williams of the 600 block of Day Avenue Southwest was at a neighbor's house when three men wearing ski masks forced their way in. One of the men pistol-whipped Williams. The men ransacked the house, putting Williams in a bathroom, police say. Williams escaped by climbing out a window.
In another incident, a 26-year-old Elliston man was shot early Saturday as he was using a pay phone on Shenandoah Avenue Northwest. Police say Aaron Bland was at the phone about 1 a.m. when two men pulled up in a car. Both men got out, and one began firing a handgun.
Bland was hit in his upper arms; he drove himself to Montgomery Regional Hospital, where he was treated, police say.
There were no arrests in any of the incidents.
by CNB