WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Three Dead, Two Wounded In Kanawha

(06/07/2006)
THREE DEAD, TWO INJURED IN KANAWHA SHOOTING - Keith "Little" Jeffers, 20, is a suspect in a Kanawha County shooting rampage that left three people dead and two others hospitalized with gunshot wounds. He was at large last night.

Police say the shootings are likely drug related.

Jeffers is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of malicious wounding in Tuesday's early morning shooting in Amandaville.

He is a black male, about five-foot-four and 165 pounds. He may be driving a small white car that witnesses saw leaving the scene.

Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford has identified the dead as 47-year-old Dennis Lovejoy, the resident of the home where the shooting took place; 31-year-old Amanda Ingram Walker of St. Albans and 46-year-old Culloden resident Gregory Childress.

The two men wounded during the shooting are 39-year-old James Adkins of St. Albans and 33-year-old Jerry Allen of Dunbar. Allen remains in critical condition at Charleston Area Medical Center, where Adkins is under observation.

A sixth person, Dave Taylor, was injured when he jumped through a window to escape.

FAIRMONT SHOOTER INDICTED - A Marion County man has been indicted on charges for the fatal shootings of two neighbors and the attempted murder of the couple's adult son.

Dale Eagle Senior, 64, of Four States was indicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of malicious wounding.

The charges stem from the May 16th deaths of 56-year-old Robert Slatt and his wife, 52-year-old Tanna Slatt. The two were shot with a high-powered rifle on the gravel driveway of their Worthington farm.

Thirty-one-year-old Robert Slatt Junior was seriously wounded in the incident.