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By MARK SCOLFORO
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
OPAL — State Police are looking for a blue Pontiac Grand-Am after a" D.C. woman was killed in the first case of that city’s drug bloodbath reaching F auquier County.
Two men were questioned, but no arrests have yet been made in the apparently crack-related murder last Thursday of Anne Louise Gordon, 32, a D.C. woman who was driving her son to a juvenile drug case in Charlottesville when she was shot and killed.
Mrs. Gordon’s son, Melvin “Termite” Ward, was also shot, in the neck, by the same bullet. A 13-yearold boy, reportedly a friend of Ward's, was riding in the back seat and not injured.
State Police investigators went to Charlottesville and interrogated two men, Gary Hinkle and Wilson Emory Smith, for several hours Thursday afternoon, then released them without charges.
Hinkle and Smith had been arrested in Charlottesville on May 3, apparently while driving around Charlottesville with Ward, one other juvenile, cocaine paraphernalia and more than $4,000 in cash, according to reports.
The two adults, both in their late 20s, had been charged with contributing to the delinquincy of a minor and cocaine possession. An Albemarle County prosecutor was quoted as saying that Ward was to supply testimony needed to convict the two.
State Police Sgt. Roger Broadbent, who is supervising the investigators in the case, would not comment on what “Termite” Ward and the other boy in the car had to say to investigators.
He would not say what kind of
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