| KANAWHA MAN CHARGED IN STABBING
A Kanawha County magistrate has found probable cause to continue the
first-degree murder charges against 40-year-old Tom Haynes, despite Haynes'
claims that the killing was in self-defense.
Haynes allegedly stabbed and killed his brother-in-law during a fight, a stab
wound to the neck of Matthew Lusher, 24.
Witnesses said Lusher and Haynes began their argument on a stairway and then
continued it into the dining room, where they crashed through a table. The victim
died quickly from a loss of blood.
CHARLESTON TEEN SHOT IN FRONT OF STORE
A Charleston teen was shot yesterday while he was standing in front of a
Washington Street east store.
Shavan Collins, 17, told police he was standing in front of the T&J Mart when he
was wounded in the neck about 1:30 a.m.
Collins told officers a car pulled up and beckoned him, after which gunshots were
fired. He was treated and released.
PENNSBORO MAN HELD IN MULTIPLE-SHOOTING
A Pennsboro man has been charged with second-degree murder after he
allegedly broke into a home, shot a man in the arm and killed another man.
Trooper 1st Class James E. Stout II rushed into the home when he heard
gunshots and arrested Brusie R. "Don" Lanham, 58, according to a West Virginia
State Police news release.
Lanham went into the home about 8:47 p.m. Sunday with a .357-Magnum
handgun. He allegedly shot Barry "Buck" Moore, 55, multiple times in the arm.
Lanham was shot in the hand and torso by someone inside the home, said the
release.
Lanham then shot and killed Jon Broadwater, 36, of West Union.
State Police Sgt. Eric E. Ashcraft in Harrisville said more people could have been
killed "if it were not for the actions of those inside the home, the calm of the 911
dispatchers who were on the phone with an occupant of the home during the
entire ordeal and the courage shown" by officer Stout.
Stout was nearby when shots rang out.
SETTLEMENT IN G0-MART STABBING
A settlement has been reached in the 2000 stabbing death of Kanawha County
Go-Mart employee.
Pamela Sue Neece sued in 2002 over the 2000 murder of her 21-year-old son,
Michael Douglas Fleming. Fleming worked as a clerk in a Spring Hill Go-Mart.
Since Fleming's death, about half of Go-Mart's 87 stores in West Virginia have installed transaction drawers. The drawers allow items to be passed outside to customers by late night clerks inside the locked stores.
Joseph Nathaniel Toliver of Gaithersburg, Maryland is serving life in prison
without mercy for the stabbing.
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