MORE QUESTIONS SURROUND DEATH OF WIRT MAN

(07/15/2004)
More questions than answers surround the death of a Palestine, Wirt County man, who died after he was punched and struck the back of his head on the asphalt.

Twenty-seven year old Leo Pettry died almost a week ago in Camden-Clark Hospital following a series of incidents in Belpre, Ohio related to a domestic dispute.

Pettry had apparently returned to an apartment to apologize for being in a fight inside the Belpre residence, encountering the same male who was involved in an earlier conflict.

Autopsy results are pending from the Montgomery County Coroner's Office in Dayton, Ohio.