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Monday, April 16, 2007

Shooting Suspect Caught

Before he landed on national news Web sites, accused double murderer William Morva was already notorious on the downtown Blacksburg scene.

Known for refusing to wear shoes, and not having a job, he is described by former neighbor Anthony Seay as “nice, but weird.”

Others have used less polite words.

At one point after Morva’s arrest on armed robbery charges last year, a T-shirt with a silk-screened image of him, surrounded by the words “William Morva Is An A******,” became a local fad fashion item.

The shirt was made by Rebecca Cartage and her boyfriend Mark Williams, in response to an inside joke and a phone debt.

Williams had tried to help Morva out by arranging cell phone service for him because Morva lacked a credit card, Cartage said. When Morva was arrested on an armed robbery charge last year he was unable to pay Williams back and Williams wound up on the hook for $389, Cartage said.

To cover the debt the couple, who are now working on an organic farm in Michigan in exchange for room and board, started selling the T-shirts for $5 apiece. They sold about 50 shirts, which covered about half the phone bill, Cartage said.

She said Morva used to always joke that he could make money selling such a shirt, “but it never got off the ground because he wouldn’t let us take his picture.”

After Morva’s robbery arrest, they got the picture they needed – his mug shot.
(Credit:http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/79080)

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