Roanoke Attorney Sam Garrison filed a motion to dismiss on behalf of Everette Elmo Davidson. He says sodomy laws have been selectively enforced. It's also a first amendment issue, Garrison says, because it's an attempt to enforce religious views of morality. Officials believe the 15-year old was responsible for the July 28th fire at the Willow River apartments. Police say the boy set the apartment on fire while burning some basketball trading cards he had apparently stolen and was supposed to return.
Officials say the investigation into the other fires continues.
A Roanoke woman has been charged with setting fire to a relative's home early this morning. Police charged Sharon D. Jones with burglary and arson, in a fire that destroyed an apartment in the 23-hundred block of Staunton Avenue. Jones and a family member were fighting, as the upper part of the building burned, when police got there. Firefighters soon had the flames out. Jones could be facing additional charges.