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Article: Back in custody: Officers found shooting suspect William Morva hiding underneath thick briars.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2006
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Byline: Angela Manese-Lee
Aug. 22--BLACKSBURG -- After leading law enforcement on a 37-hour manhunt, William Charles Morva, 24, was arrested Monday afternoon in an area of thick briars on the Huckleberry Trail, about 150 yards from the spot where he is accused of shooting and killing a Montgomery County sheriff's deputy about eight hours earlier.
Morva's arrest and return to jail cap a series of events that began early Sunday morning when authorities say Morva, a Montgomery County Jail inmate, fatally shot a hospital security guard, injured a deputy sheriff and then fled on foot from Montgomery Regional Hospital.
As of Monday evening, Morva had ...