ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, May 30, 1996 TAG: 9605300066
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: LISA K. GARCIA
The Pulaski County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a Wytheville man Wednesday in connection with a May 1995 brawl where a Draper man was stabbed to death.
The fight that led to the stabbing death of Windle Jackson Edwards Jr., 31, broke out in downtown Pulaski May 28.
Tony Wayne Covey, 27, was indicted on charges of murder, two counts of attempted malicious wounding and malicious wounding, court records show.
His brother, David Eugene Covey, 25, was indicted on charges of malicious wounding of Edwards in connection with the same incident, according to court records.
At no time during the preliminary hearing held in January did a motive for the fight surface.
The fight involved a baseball bat and a knife and occurred in the early morning hours when Windle and Terrance Wade Edwards, Charles T. Crowder III, and two other friends met up with brothers Tony and David Covey.
Crowder testified in January that the group drove to Draper pick up the wife of one of the passengers outside a market on Valley Street.
When Windle Edwards opened the car door to get out, Crowder testified, David Covey hit Edwards in the back of the head with a baseball bat. That's when Crowder said he got out of the car and Tony Covey stabbed him.
Crowder said he tried to warn Windle Edwards about the knife, but Tony Covey stabbed Edwards three or four times, he testified.
Windle Edwards died several hours later at a hospital.
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