ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 30, 1996 TAG: 9601300109
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON STAFF WRITER
MEMO: NOTE: Shorter version ran in Metro edition.
A convicted felon is in jail on charges of killing a Franklin County man over the weekend.
Kenneth R. "Rusty" Moore, 27, of Rocky Mount was stabbed in the chest with a knife late Saturday during a fight outside a trailer off Virginia 40 near Rocky Mount, said Sheriff W.Q. "Quint" Overton.
Moore died Sunday afternoon at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Barry M. Dudley, 21, of Callaway was arrested Sunday and charged with murder, Overton said. He was arraigned Monday morning and is being held in the county jail on $100,000 bond.
According to Overton, the events that led up to the stabbing started at a nightspot, Paul's Bar-B-Que, on Virginia 40 near Ferrum College.
Moore and Dudley got into an altercation shortly before midnight Saturday because Dudley was dancing with Moore's girlfriend, Overton said.
Private security officers were called in to break up the fight at the nightspot, but it resumed a short time later at a trailer park a couple of miles away, Overton said. Moore was stabbed outside a trailer owned by an acquaintance.
Friends took Moore - who was conscious and talking, according to Overton - to Franklin Memorial Hospital.
However, about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Moore was airlifted to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died about 12 hours later.
Dudley was convicted of unlawful wounding for shooting a Franklin County juvenile in a 1992 shooting, according to Franklin County Commonwealth's Attorney Cliff Hapgood.
Dudley, who was 17 at the time, shot the boy in the parking lot of a local convenience store, Overton said. Dudley was tried as an adult.
He was sentenced to three years in prison in September 1992, and was released in the summer of 1993, Hapgood said.
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