WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB

(12/19/2006)
MAN FATALLY STABBED IN KANAWHA - A Rand, Kanawha County man is dead after being stabbed around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Neighbors in the Rand Community told police they heard some arguing in the area of Glennville Avenue and Church Drive in Rand.

The victim Johnny Lee Coon, Senior, 37, called police and was rushed to CAMC, where he died.

Police arrested Monique Weldon Saturday night and charged her with the murder. Detectives say the two were seen arguing just before the stabbing.

Weldon is being held at the South Central Regional Jail.

MINERAL COUNTY MURDER-SUICIDE - State Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Mineral County.

Police found the bodies of 37-year-old Jeffrey Allen Landis of Ridgeley and 31-year-old Jeremy Wade Bender at Bender's residence in Short Gap.

Bender's wife and mother reported that Bender shot Landis and then shot himself.

Police say Landis was shot multiple times while Bender died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.