By DOUG LOFTIS
Sought since Friday on a first degree murder charge in connection with the death of 21-year-old Kimberly Ann Martin, Lawrence Maurice "Kool Aid" Watson, 22, turned himself in to South Boston police Saturday afternoon.
Watson, accompanied by his father, turned himself in about 5:20 p.m. Saturday, South Boston Police Lt. R.D. Loftis said yesterday.
Unusually "mum" on the case, Loftis said that Watson was being held in the Halifax Regional Jail without bond, but the police officer would not give an apparent cause of death for Martin or any details regarding a statement that he said Watson made when he turned himself in Saturday.
Loftis said that it could be two to three weeks before the State Medical Examiner's autopsy report on Martin would be released.
After receiving a telephone call at about 3 a.m. on Friday that "a crime may have occurred at 1317 Briggs Street in South Boston," police went to the house and through a basement window saw a body lying on the sofa.
The police also found a 14-month-old child, later identified as the victim's child, which was taken to Halifax Regional Hospital and found to be physically well.
The Briggs St. address is the same house that friends of the victim say Martin and Watson had lived together in "off and on" for over a year.
Friends of Kimberly Ann Martin also say that she and "Kool Aid" Watson "argued all the time."
Police refused to provide details surrounding Martin's death but at the Briggs Street scene were overheard by reporters to say that the victim may have been killed on the upper level of the single story brick and "dragged down there (basement)."
Saying only that a weapon was involved, investigators told reporters that further details surrounding the crime would be released following the autopsy.
Although the area in the North Main Street community is densely populated, the nearest resident is a half block away in all directions.
Friends say that they last saw Martin alive late Wednesday night. The friends said that they, along with Martin, Watson and a fifth person, were playing cards until after midnight.
The friends of the couple say that they left the house when Watson and Martin began arguing.
Upon their return Thursday afternoon, the same friends say they were met in front of the house on Briggs Street by Watson, who was holding Kim Martin's son.
Watson, they said, asked them if they had seen Kim Martin.
Watson allegedly told them that Martin "had took off running" the night before and that he had not seen her since.
The friends say that they went to a nearby house where they thought Martin might have gone but were told by the residents that they had not seen her.
Those who knew Watson say that he was an outstanding athlete, especially in track, while at Halifax County High School. He finished high school and entered college in Petersburg but dropped out before graduating.
Kim Martin also attended Halifax County High School and was said to have been an accomplished student. However, she dropped out of school in her senior year not long before graduation.
She was the daughter of William Keith Martin of South Boston and Bonnie Forlines of Martinsville.
In addition to her son, Demajhae, and her parents, the deceased is survived by a sister, Kayla Martin of South Boston; her grandparents, William H. and Faye Martin of Nathalie and Howard and Dorothy Conner of Mt. Laurel; and one step-sister, Victoria Forlines of Martinsville.
Graveside services for the victim will be held today at Halifax Memorial Gardens at 2 p.m.

Southside Community Services Board (SCSB) has filed suit in federal court against the Town of South Boston after its failed attempt to have the 24-hour supervision condition removed from the Gateway-Halifax Apartments in South Boston, which SCSB operates.
The suit is based on what SCSB sees as the "Town's repeated intentionally discriminatory failure to remove a zoning condition for the conditional use permit for the operation of the 10 one-bedroom apartment units for tenants with mental disabilities in the Town of South Boston."
"The Town has taken no action on this lawsuit to date, and we are currently discussing the situation with our town attorney and our insurance company, Virginia Municipal League," said Ted Daniel, South Boston town manager.
"The Town Council will comment publicly on the matter after they have had time to review the complaint and consult with the town's legal team."
SCSB's lawsuit also names as plaintiffs three residents of Gateway-Halifax Apartments, Dolan J. Pittman, Edward Jackson and Naomi M. Carden.
According to the SCSB suit, the continued 24-hour supervision requirement fails to provide a "reasonable accommodation" to the mentally disabled and violates both the Federal and Commonwealth Fair Housing Acts, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Sevices and Developmental Disabilities Act of 1977, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
South Boston Town Council issued a conditional use permit in October 1991 with conditions, which the SCSB accepted in order to build and operate the Gateway-Halifax Apartments.
The apartments operated without complaint as to any of the conditions until approximately April 1998, when they first voiced concern about the 24-hour supervisory condition in a letter written by SCSB Executive Director Jules Modlinski to then South Boston Town Manager Kenneth McLawhon.
The letter asked to allow SCSB to be "allowed to provide routine site visits and inspections without requiring 24-hour on-site staff."
After SCSB formally applied for an amendment to the Conditional Use Permit in December 2000, the planning commission conducted a public hearing on February 14, 2001.
After hearing substantial neighboring property owners' comments, the planning commission recommended that the Town Council not amend the permit as requested.
After conducting another public hearing on March 12, 2001, to hear the application and receive public comment, Town Council denied the application to amend the permit.
The SCSB lawsuit contends that the town's "intentional and continued failure to change this discriminatory zoning requirement is continuing significant burden and expense to the Southside CSB, costing it approximately $70,000 per year in completely unnecessary extra staff expenses."
According to the SCSB action, the individual tenant plaintiffs have "suffered emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment from the stigma attached to living in this project, the only apartment project in the Town of South Boston with this restriction.
"The plaintiffs seek an injunction against the continued application of this zoning requirement, compensatory damages, costs and attorneys fees."
In taking the actions it did in response to SCSB's request to rescind the 24-hour supervisory requirement at Gateway-Halifax Apartments, Daniel stated that "both the town council and planning commission exercised their responsibilities under the Town Zoning Ordinance."
"The Conditional Use Permit procedure is intended as a means for the Town Council, after review and recommendation by the Planning Commission, and public hearings by both bodies, to authorize certain uses which although generally appropriate in the district in which they are permitted, have potentially greater impacts on neighboring properties than uses which are permitted by right.
"Under 1991 zoning and 2001 rezoning, the apartment complex can only be authorized by Special (or Conditional) Use Permit. The Town Council considered all public testimony in 1991 and again in 2001 to arrive at their decision that the conditions were appropriate for operations of the Gateway-Halifax Apartments in that neighborhood."
Daniel continued that "following the March 12, 2001, decision of Town Council, the applicant was notified as required by the Town Zoning Ordinance that they could appeal the Council's decision to the Halifax County Circuit Court in accordance with Town Code and State law.
"For whatever reason, the applicant let the 30-day appeal period go by without challenging Town Council's decision by appealing to our local Circuit Court," said Daniel.
"Town Council and the Planning Commission based their decisions on the best interests of the community at large and everybody concerned."

 The Carlbrook School, a private, coeducational boarding school locating in the Vernon Hill community, will begin accepting enrollments in January.
"The Carlbrook School, named for the property on which it will be located, will service the needs of bright and gifted students experiencing academic difficulty ...," school officials announced Friday.
The school will integrate academic excellence and character development.
School founders Justin J. Merritt and R. Grant Price Jr. plan to provide an "unparalleled interpersonal and academic preparation" for the classic underachiever.
The school is a dream longtime friends Merritt and Price have shared for over a decade.
The two spent the past two years raising funds, developing the school curriculum and searching for suitable property, which included an exhaustive property search throughout the eastern United States.
"I knew right away this was the place because it's the kind of area in which I want to live with my own family," said Merritt, the school's Dean of Faculty and Administration.
"The gentle rolling terrain and rural setting provide a welcome respite from the harried pace so many students endure today," said Price, Carlbrook's Dean of Admissions. "It is the kind of setting that is inspirational for both faculty and students."
The educators described Halifax County officials as instrumental in bringing The Carlbrook School to the region. "They have assisted the school in every conceivable way and have provided an environment conducive to the establishment of a top-notch educational institution."
The school is already interviewing candidates for its administrative positions and plans to bring on additional personnel late this fall.

The abundance of clean water throughout the Roanoke River Basin for industry, recreation and agriculture is not something to be taken for granted any longer.
That sense of urgency is not lost on Halifax Delegate W.W. "Ted" Bennett and State Senator Charles Hawkins of Chatham, both of whom are involved in the series of public hearings to receive comment on the makeup of a proposed Roanoke River Basin Commission.
Bennett is a member of the Roanoke River Basin Study Subcommittee charged with ascertaining public views on such a commission, while Hawkins chairs the group.
Bennett originally proposed the concept of a Roanoke River Basin Commission as a single entity to monitor and advocate conservation of the waters in the Roanoke River Basin.
According to Bennett, his reaction to Thursday's meeting was similar to that after the Roanoke River Basin Summit last July in South Boston, where people's concerns over creation of an additional governmental agency were addressed.
"Citizens are here to help government," said Bennett, who added that his vision for the commission is a citizen-based group that seeks a balance between economics and conservation.
Bennett pointed to comments made at Thursday's hearing by James "Tommy" Motley, a dairy farmer from Gretna, who expressed concerns that the commission would "overlap" existing governmental regulatory agencies and sometimes compete with them in resource management and permitting.
"What I have found in this 12-year plus period...is that you've got to equip citizens to make them effective. You cannot rely on state and federal agencies to protect you," said Bennett, referring both to his advocacy of basin issues while a Delegate and as an attorney fighting the Virginia Beach Pipeline.
"You need something to institutionalize these people's knowledge in one place for posterity. We can't control water quality and quantity needs simply by the water permit process."
The permitted withdrawal of water at Kerr Dam by Virginia Power during the drought of 1999 and the state government's earlier five-year delay in notifying basin residents of PCB contamination were cited as issues an established citizen-based group could have addressed.
Hawkins, who is chairman of the Virginia State Water Commission's Roanoke River Basin Study Subcommittee, said that the basin is a complicated subject because of its diversity.
"The demographics of the whole basin are changing almost daily," said Hawkins, who, like Bennett, fought against the Virginia Beach Pipeline.
"We need to start having discussions because we can no longer take for granted future availability of a clean, abundant water supply," said Hawkins.
"We need to have something in mind when it comes to how we use our water and what we can do to protect the environment."
Hawkins referred to the current power crisis in California as something basin advocates can and should avoid.
"You cannot force populations to grow beyond the ability of natural resources to support them..you're courting a natural disaster as some point.
"We have reached a point in our society where we can bypass that natural part and create an artificial environment much like they've done in Los Angeles, where they've literally pumped rivers dry.
"On the west coast you can buy and own water rights - we cannot have that here."
Hawkins believes that even people in the cities are beginning to understand you cannot constantly cram people into areas that are ecologically fragile - because you can bring in natural resources to support that growth - without having negative long-term effects.
"We need to protect this natural resource for the next generation, encourage the industrial growth we need for jobs, and also protect farming and sportsman interests as well as wildlife," said the Senator from Chatham.
Bennett mentioned lessons learned while attending a conference of state legislators in Chicago last year as a possible model for the current deliberations.
"The National Conference of State Legislators does a good job of bringing things together about water management," said Bennett, mentioning water resource issues surrounding the Illinois River.
"That basin is more complex [than the Roanoke River Basin] due to river commerce. They've begun to deal effectively with that situation and other issues in a balance with conservation."
Bennett believes that during the current hearings process that stakeholders from one end of the basin to the other will get a consensus of issues, which knowledge would help a commission's credibilty when it goes before state regulatory agencies such as DEQ and the Virginia State Water Commission.
"You have to have officers, staff and a data base, equipped with computers that track climate conditions and water flow as well as a drought index, tied together by e-mail and Internet," said Bennett.
"Communication is the key."

South Boston's Dixie Boys 13-14-Year-Old all-star team has made it look easy in the first two rounds of the Virginia Dixie Boys 13-14 Baseball Tournament at the Day Complex.
Combining a potent offense with strong pitching, South Boston downed Blacksburg 15-3 in its Friday opener and turned back Bedford Metro 8-2 Saturday night.
The two wins kept South Boston in the winner's bracket where it was scheduled to face undefeated Nottoway in the third game of yesterday's tripleheader.
Things looked tough for South Boston early in Saturday's game as Bedford Metro plated a run in the top of the first inning and added another in the top of the third inning to take a 2-0 lead.
South Boston got one of the runs back by scoring in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Chris Perkins was hit by a pitch, stole second base and third base and scored on a two-out single by Chris Conner to make it a 2-1 game.
South Boston broke the game open with a huge seven-run rally in the bottom of the fifth inning that produced the final 8-2 score.
Andrew Bradley singled with one out and moved to second base on a passed ball.
Justin Armistead walked and both advanced on a passed ball. Bradley scored and tied the game when Chris Lowery reached base on an error.
A hit by Clyde Brooks scored Armistead to put South Boston up 3-2. Perkins reached base on a fielder's choice that erased Lowery from the base paths for the second out.
Marcus Humphrey delivered a two -RBI double to put South Boston up 5-2.
A hit by Conner scored Humphrey to make the score 6-2. Steven Smith singled and a hit by Chase Weddle scored Conner to make it a 7-2 score.
Smith scored on a passed ball to give South Boston a six-run cushion.
Bedford made one final bid, using walks to the first two batters in the inning as a springboard to load the bases.
South Boston tightened the reigns on its defense, however, and turned back the Bedford threat.
South Boston had 12 hits in the game with Armistead, Brooks, Humphrey, Conner and Weddle each getting two hits and Smith and Bradley chipping in a hit each.
The local team also benefited from two walks from the Bedford mound corp.
South Boston went four pitchers deep into its pitching rotation with Bradley and Armistead seeing the most work with three innings each on the hill.
Bradley struck out four batters and allowed three hits and two runs. Armistead allowed four hits in his stint on the mound.
Chris Lowery came in during the final inning and faced two batters, walking both.
Conner came in behind him, faced the last three Bedford batters in the game and allowed one walk.
Bedford finished with eight hits in the contest and left seven runners on base.
South Boston scored early and often Friday night in its 15-3 win over Blacksburg in the opening round of the tournament.
The host team had 10 hits and received nine walks from the Blacksburg pitchers to help further the scoring effort.
Lowery had two hits including a three-run homer in the fifth inning.
Humphrey also had two hits with triples in the fourth and fifth innings.
Brooks, Perkins, Mitchell Holbrook, Smith and Weddle each had a hit in the game.
South Boston opened with a four-run first inning highlighted by a two-RBI hit by Perkins.
Brooks and Perkins also scored in the inning with Brooks, who reached base on walk, scoring on a wild pitch and Perkins scoring on a passed ball.
Two South Boston errors allowed Blacksburg to score a run in the bottom of the first inning to make it a 4-1 game.
South Boston upped its lead to 6-1 with two runs in the top of the third inning but Blacksburg scored an unearned run to make it a 6-2 score at the end of the inning.
Three South Boston runs in the top of the fourth inning made it a 9-2 score. Two of the runs scored on a error. Humphrey lashed a triple and scored on a passed ball.
Blacksburg scored another unearned run in the bottom of the inning to make it a 9-3 score.
South Boston put the game out of reach with a six-run rally in the top of the sixth inning keyed by Lowery's three-run homer, a two-RBI triple by Humphrey and a run scoring hit from Holbrook.

Macie Snead Blackstock

Macie Snead Blackstock, 87, of 2053 Old Cedar Trail, Nathalie, died July 19 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mrs. Blackstock was born in Halifax County on October 12, 1913, the daughter of Jack Snead and Pearl Crenshaw Snead and was married to Albert Fuller Blackstock. She was a member of Hunting Creek Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Carolyn B. Fisher of South Boston and Hazel B. Conner of Nathalie; three sisters, Pauline Crews of Nathalie, Mattie Throckmorton of Clover and Jacqueline Browder of Lawrenceville; one brother, Charlie Snead of Clover; two grandchildren, Steve Conner of Halifax and Kimberly Fisher Cunningham of Malibu, Calif; two great-grandchildren, Kevin Forest Conner and Maci O'Brien Cunningham. She was preceded in death by one sister, Rosa Vassar and one brother, Hampton Snead.
Funeral services for Mrs. Blackstock were held July 22 at 2 p.m. at Hunting Creek Baptist Church with the Revs. H.V. Conner and Lee Roy Davis conducting the service. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Lillie Epps Brown

Lillie Epps Brown, 88, of 6150 Howard P. Anderson Road, Crystal Hill died July 20 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mrs. Brown was born in Halifax County on January 27, 1913, the daughter of Albert Epps and Lillie Smallman Epps and was married to Cabel Howard Brown. She was a member of Crystal Hill Southern Baptist Church.
Survivors include one daughter, Patricia B. Loftis of Virgilina; one son, William H. Brown of Danville; one brother, Bobby Epps of Crewe; five grandchildren, Will Brown of Danville, Beth Nutter of Clarksville, Connie Terry of Quinton, Chad Loftis of Virgilina and Ken Loftis of Richmond; three great-grandchildren, Jennifer Nunn of Clarksville, Jacob Terry and Wyatt Terry, both of Quinton. She was preceded in death by a son, Sherman 'Chip' Brown; three sisters and five brothers.
Funeral services for Mrs. Brown were held July 22 at 2 p.m. at Crystal Hill Southern Baptist Church with the Revs. Rebecca Powell and Ed Griffin officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider Crystal Hill Southern Baptist Church or the Halifax County Rescue Squad.

Kimberly Ann Martin

Kimberly Ann Martin, 21, of Halifax County, died July 20 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Miss Martin was born in Halifax County on September 19, 1979, the daughter of William Keith Martin and Bonnie Forlines.
Survivors include her son, Demajhae; her parents, Bonnie Forlines and husband, Jeffrey of Martinsville and William Keith Martin of South Boston; one sister, Kayla Martin of South Boston; her grandparents, William H. and Faye Martin of Nathalie, Howard and Dorothy Conner of Mt. Laurel; and one stepsister, Victoria Forlines of Martinsville.
Graveside services for Miss Martin will be held today, July 23 at 2 p.m. at Halifax Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Dr. Bill Leonard officiating.

Mittie Norwood Spencer

Mittie Norwood Spencer, 92, of 2804 Halifax Road, South Boston, died July 20 at her home.
Mrs. Spencer was born in Vance County, N.C. on November 16, 1908, the daughter of John Alps Norwood and Blanche Norwood and was married to Rev. Lewis Page Spencer Sr.
Survivors include one daughter, Isabel Bradley of South Boston; three grandchildren, Dr. Richard B. Bradley of Halifax, Janet B. Darby of Midlothian and Lynn Ellen Spencer of Henderson, N.C.; two sisters, Lizzie N. Keeton and Helen B. Norwood, both of Townsville, N.C. She was preceded in death by her husband, and one son, Lewis Spencer Jr.
Funeral services for Mrs. Spencer were held July 22 at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in Lawrence, N.C. with the Rev. Charles Dupree conducting the service. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider the Hospice Support Care of Southside Virginia, PO Box 1355, Halifax, 24558.

James Louis McCargo

James Louis McCargo, 71, of 2085 MacDonald Road, Scottsburg, died July 20 at his home.
Mr. McCargo was born in Halifax County on November 23, 1929, the son of Willie McCargo and Lillie Mitchell McCargo and was married to Nannie Womack McCargo. He was a member of Spanish Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Dorothy McCargo Freeman of Blacksburg, Annette Coleman of Chesapeake and Willie McCargo Freeman of Norfolk; three sons, James L. McCargo Jr. of Germany, Calvin L. McCargo of Lawton, Okla. and Roosevelt Davis of Charleston, S.C.; seven grandchildren; one sister, Ella M. Crews of Scottsburg; one brother, Moses McCargo Sr. of South Boston; two daughters-in-law, Maxine McCargo and Sumi McCargo; two sons-in-law, Alonzo Coleman and Reginald Freeman; one brother-in-law, Wilfred Womack of Vienna; one sister-in-law, Thalia McCargo of South Boston; and a devoted friend, Tanya Brenza of Charleston.
Funeral services for Mr. McCargo will be held July 25 at 1 p.m. at Spanish Grove Baptist Church at 1 p.m. The Revs. Cathy McCargo and Ronnie Womack will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the Chapel of Jeffress Funeral Home Tuesday evening from 7:00 until 8:00, and other times at the home.

Winnie Mildred Allen Terrell

Winnie Mildred Allen Terrell 'Aunt Kit', 86, of 4169 MacDonald Road, Scottsburg, died July 18 at her home.
Mrs. Terrell was born in Charlotte County on November 18, 1914, the daughter of Mount Ferdinand Allen and Maggie Hill Allen and was married to the late Gaddis Roosevelt Terrell. She was a member of Spanish Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Jacqueline R. Bailey and Mildred E. Carden, both of Scottsburg; two sons, James Allen of Scottsburg and Theodore R. Terrell of Washington, D.C.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren, including the devoted Tyron D. Morton of Scottsburg; and four great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Terrell will be held today, July 23 at 2 p.m. at Spanish Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Byrd B. Blackwell officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family is receiving friends at the home of the deceased, and at the home of Elaine Carden, 1213 Allen's Mill Road, Scottsburg.