THE LEDGER-STAR  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, March 13, 1995                 TAG: 9503130178
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A1   EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
                                             LENGTH: Medium:   76 lines

CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: ***************************************************************** Ron Revering, 47, the victim of a shooting March 8 in Elizabeth City, N.C., was shot at twice - once while in a vehicle and again after he left it - and was struck by five bullets. A story Monday did not make clear the distinction between the number of times he was shot at and the number of times he was hit. Correction published Thursday, March 16, 1995. ***************************************************************** FUGITIVE ARRESTED IN VIRGINIA BEACH

Richard S. ``Ricky'' Hogarth, 30, an ex-convict wanted for killing his girlfriend and shooting her step-grandfather in Elizabeth City, was arrested early today in Virginia Beach after a Suffolk police officer spotted him in Suffolk driving a stolen car.

Hogarth was being held this morning at the Norfolk City Jail without bond pending extradition to North Carolina. The car had been stolen in Norfolk.

His capture ended a two-state manhunt that started after Tracy Crafton, 24, was shot to death about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in North Carolina. She was killed in the parking lot of the Zoom-In gas station and convenience store on U.S. Route 17, a few miles north of Elizabeth City.

Her step-grandfather, Ron Revering, 47, of the 1200 block of Homestead Drive in Virginia Beach, was shot twice and remains hospitalized at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

After the shootings Wednesday, police said Hogarth drove to the 9400 block of Atlans St. in the Ocean View section of Norfolk where, at gunpoint, he stole a car belonging to an acquaintance, Stephen Brock.

It was that car, a gray Acura, that Suffolk police officer D.L. Brannen first spotted at 1:40 a.m. today on North Main Street in Suffolk.

Larry Hill, a Norfolk police spokesman, said Brannen recognized the license plate number on the stolen car. When he attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver hit the gas.

As the chase headed east on U.S. Route 58 toward Bowers Hill, Brannen radioed for assistance and told dispatchers to alert state police.

Tammy Van Dame, a state police spokeswoman, said the early warning gave troopers enough time to move into position to pick up the chase. Additionally, police in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach were alerted and police units were sent to interstate interchanges to block the exits and make sure Hogarth could not get off the highway.

Just before 2 a.m., troopers used a ``rolling roadblock'' to hem in the Acura with their cars, bringing it to a stop near Indian River Road in Virginia Beach. Hogarth was arrested there without further incident, Hill said.

Crafton, who had been living with Hogarth after meeting him three weeks earlier, had become frightened of him and had called her grandparents to come get her.

The grandparents arranged to meet Hogarth and Crafton at the Zoom-In, about half a mile from Hogarth's house.

Shirley Revering said that when they arrived, they found that their granddaughter had been beaten. When Ron Revering asked Hogarth if he was responsible, he said he was and then told the man he was going to kill him.

Seconds later, Crafton was shot through the temple with a .380 semiautomatic handgun. Then the gun was turned on Ron Revering who was shot five times.

Shirley Revering told police that Hogarth then took aim at her, but that the gun was out of shells. ILLUSTRATION: Richard S. ``Ricky'' Hogarth allegedly committed two shootings

in Elizabeth City, stole a car in Norfolk and was sought in two

states.

KEYWORDS: POLICE CHASE ARREST FUGITIVE MURDER SHOOTING STOLEN

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