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Jury deliberates prison sentence in stabbing death

ROANOKE COUNTY – A Roanoke County jury is deliberating this afternoon whether David Bomber should spend the majority of the rest of his life in prison, after yesterday finding him guilty of stabbing Larry Michael Worrell II. Bomber could be sentenced to a maximum of life in prison on the aggravated malicious wounding charge,... »

Jury could get stabbing case this afternoon

ROANOKE COUNTY – Closing arguments are expected within the hour and the jury could make a decision later today about the fate of a 38-year-old man who fatally stabbed another after they spent the day drinking heavily. Attorneys and Roanoke County Circuit Court Judge R. “Pat” Doherty Jr. are going over instructions this afternoon... »

Stabbing defendant says was self defense

ROANOKE COUNTY – “There was blood going everywhere.” That was part of the tearful testimony today by the girlfriend of a Roanoke County man who is on trial for stabbing his neighbor in the chest after the two men had been drinking heavily all day. As the second-degree murder trial moved through its third... »

Hale gets 3 years for fatally stabbing roommate

SALEM – Unlike his four-day trial, Sam Hale shed no tears today when he was sentenced to serve three years for fatally stabbing his roommate, Josh McCoy. And instead of a coat and tie, the 25-year-old appeared in Salem Circuit Court in a yellow jumpsuit with the letters for Western Virginia Regional Jail stamped... »

Jury begins hearing roommate murder testimony

SALEM – After more than three hours of interviewing prospective jurors, the Commonwealth began putting on evidence this afternoon in the first-degree murder case against 25-year-old Samuel Lucas Hale who is charged with fatally stabbing his roommate. Joshua Luis McCoy died in the early morning of Jan. 16 in the apartment the two shared... »