ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 30, 1996 TAG: 9601300087
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
A 7-year-old Northwest Roanoke girl hit by a city sanitation truck Monday morning suffered minor injuries, police said.
The truck was traveling west on Orange Avenue Northwest at 12th Street about 8:30 when the girl ran across the street, according to police. She was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for cuts and bruises to her head and released.
In incidents over the weekend:
Police charged a 17-year-old boy with wounding another boy early Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Northwest Roanoke.
Authorities would not release the names of the two because of their ages.
Police found out about the incident after a 16-year-old boy was admitted to Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley with a gunshot wound to his right side.
According to a police news release, the victim was driving in the area of Lafayette Boulevard Northwest about 3 a.m. when someone with whom he had a dispute earlier that night passed him in another car.
Several shots came from the passing car. The 16-year-old driver was hit by one of the rounds, police said.
Officers found the 17-year-old at an acquaintance's house in the 200 block of Fairhope Road Northwest a short time later. Officers found a 9mm handgun in the 17-year-old's pocket when they arrested him and charged him with malicious wounding.
Later that morning, the car the 17-year-old boy was driving was set afire. To protect the identity of the boy, police would not say where the fire occurred. Officers are investigating the arson.
On Monday, the 17-year-old boy was held without bond at Coyner Springs Detention Center.
The 16-year-old boy was in satisfactory condition, police said.
A 42-year-old man was forced into a Southeast Roanoke apartment and held at gunpoint Sunday night, according to police.
Claude Dillon of Indian Village Lane Southeast stepped outside to smoke a cigarette about 8:50 and saw a man standing beside his building, police said. Dillon approached the man and was attacked by four men and forced into another apartment.
Dillon told police one of the four men had a shotgun and two had handguns. Dillon and the residents of the apartment were ordered to the floor while the intruders took a beeper, two coats and about $40 in cash. The four men fled in a small, foreign-made purple truck.
As of Monday, no arrests had been made.
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