Release Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:30 p.m.
Harvey L. Bryant, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Virginia Beach, announced today that James Alexander Moore, age 45, formerly of the 2400 block of Sewells Point Road, Norfolk, was sentenced today by the Honorable Charles E. Poston of the Norfolk Circuit Court to a total of 106 years for second degree murder, burglary, grand larceny, destruction of property, obstruction of justice and false identity to police. He was also found in violation of his good behavior for earlier convictions of malicious wounding, burglary, abduction, trespassing, and petit larceny, which sentence was included in the 106 years.
The Commonwealth’s evidence presented at his earlier guilty plea was that on January 5, 2009, Moore broke into the home of Katrina Wilson, in the 7500 block of Evelyn T. Butts Road, in Norfolk. He threatened to kill Ms. Wilson and eventually left after her teenage nephew interceded and police were summoned.
On January 25, 2009 Moore grabbed a case of cigarettes worth $1118.69 from a delivery truck that was unloading at Wawa at 975 East Little Creek Road in Norfolk. Nearby police officers chased Moore and caught him. After being arrested, Moore gave police a false identity and tried to destroy a police document.
Inadvertently released on bond, on Sunday, April 26, 2009, Moore attacked Ms. Wilson in her driveway, as she was leaving her house to go to church. Moore slashed her car’s tire to prevent her from leaving, pulled Ms. Wilson out of her car, and stabbed her seven times. Meanwhile Ms. Wilson’s neighbor screamed at Moore to stop, and called 911. Ms. Wilson died as a result of a 5-inch stab wound to her neck.
Moore was free on “good behavior” from the Norfolk Circuit Court for the 1995 convictions of malicious wounding, burglary, and abduction when he committed these latest crimes. He had been found in violation of his probation four times before. Today the Court imposed the remainder of his previously re-suspended 21-year sentence.
The Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office prosecuted these cases because Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office had a conflict in the case. The Norfolk Circuit Court appointed the Virginia Beach Office as special prosecutors and Senior Commonwealth’s Attorney S. Catherine Dodson was assigned the case.
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