ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 TAG: 9702110085
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
POLICE EXPECT to charge the ex-boyfriend of a woman killed in a Roanoke County shooting Saturday night.
At least two gunshot wounds killed Lisa Sizemore, the 26-year-old woman who was gunned down outside her ex-boyfriend's Northwest Roanoke County home Saturday night.
Investigators expect to charge her ex-boyfriend, Ronald Brooks Jr., with the killing.
Brooks was under observation at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he was recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Roanoke County Detective S.C. Sturgill.
As of late Monday, police had not determined what charge they would place against Brooks. Investigators had reviewed several possibilities, including murder, Sturgill said.
Police believe Brooks shot himself after shooting Sizemore. The gunshots severed arteries in Sizemore's left leg and abdomen, an autopsy showed. Sizemore also was hit in her hand and right leg, said Dr. William Massello, assistant deputy chief medical examiner for Western Virginia.
The initial police investigation revealed that Sizemore and Brooks had been together about two years. Sizemore had broken off the relationship at the beginning of January and moved out of Brooks' home at 5745 Malvern Road within the past several weeks, Sturgill said.
Officers had not responded to the Malvern Road house on any previous reports of domestic problems between the couple, according to police records.
Sizemore drove to Brooks' house Saturday night after Brooks said he was going to put her belongings out on the road. Doug Lakes, Sizemore's current boyfriend, said he accompanied her to the house about 10 p.m.
As Sizemore approached the front door, Brooks said something to her, then shot her with a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun, Lakes said. Brooks then turned the gun on himself.
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