ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, May 30, 1996 TAG: 9605300049
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: RADFORD
SOURCE: LISA K. GARCIA STAFF WRITER
MEMO: NOTE: Also ran in Metro edition.
A Roanoke man shot last week in Radford with a Roanoke woman and her 2-year-old son was paroled from prison in February for a conviction involving a shootout in Roanoke five years ago, court records show.
Clifton W. Holland, 22, Traci Lavette Waldron, 23, and her 2-year-old son, Quashawn Waldron, were inside their stopped car at Rock Road and Wadsworth Street when six to 10 shots were fired, apparently from a gray car behind the victims' car, police said. Radford police said no arrests have been made and they still are following leads in the 10 p.m. Friday shooting.
The three shooting victims were treated at hospitals and released. Police would not give specific details of the wounds, but said none of the injuries was life-threatening.
Radford police are exploring the possibility that the shooting was drug-related but could not confirm that as a motive, Deputy Chief Jonny Butler said.
According to court records, Holland was released from prison Feb. 5 after serving five years of an eight-year sentence for malicious wounding, attempted malicious wounding and a firearm violation. He had been denied parole annually until his mandatory parole date came up in February, records show.
On Feb. 4, 1991, Holland exchanged verbal insults with an admitted crack cocaine addict while on 18th Street near the Hurt Park housing development in Southwest Roanoke. The fight escalated until gunfire was exchanged. A 4-year-old girl was struck by one of Holland's bullets, which grazed her face.
Holland, 17 at the time, was tried as an adult for his part in the shootout.
Radford police ask that anyone with information about the Radford shooting call the Crime Line at 731-3627.
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