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Chills robbery suspect has HIV

September 17, 2007|BRENDA S. EDWARDS

A Danville woman charged with attempted murder after biting a store clerk last week during a robbery has tested positive for HIV, police said.

Results received Friday by local police show that Victoria Caprice Spoonamore, 29, of 448 Patrician Place, Apt. 3, tested positive, according to Interim Chief Tony Gray.

The unidentified female clerk remains on sick leave since the incident at Chills Quick Stop on Hustonville Road. Police say she was bitten twice by Spoonamore during a scuffle after Spoonamore took money from a cash drawer.

Gray said tests showed the clerk has not been infected, but she will have to take additional tests.

"She is still very much shaken up," Chris Hill, owner of Chills, said today. "The medicine she is taking is making her extremely sick, and she will continue to have tests for a quite a while."

The clerk has not returned to work since the incident.

"It's a shame she has to go through this," Hill said.

The clerk attempted to stop Spoonamore from leaving the store after the suspect allegedly took money from the cash drawer. The two women began to scuffle, and the clerk suffered two severe bites on the chest, police said.

Spoonamore allegedly yelled that she has AIDs when the clerk asked a customer for help.

Spoonamore is charged with attempted murder, first-degree robbery and first-degree wanton endangerment and remains in the Boyle County Detention Center in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond.

Gray said the investigation is ongoing into the possibility of an accomplice. Another woman reportedly came into the store with Spoonamore but has not been charged.

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