UPDATE: BRENT BUTLER MURDERED IN WIRT |
(02/09/2008) |
![]() ![]() ![]() L-R - Gibson, Murray and Robinson Three arrests have been made related to the stabbing death of Wirt County resident 33-year-old Brent Butler. Thursday night, 31-year-old Howard Kenny Murray, of Parkersburg, was arrested after an anonymous tip lead police to the Pinewood Village in Parkersburg. Murray was questioned and arrested on a felony charge of night-time burglary and a misdemeanor charge of transferring stolen property in Wood County. Bond has been set at $52,000. Murray is also facing additional charges. He was arraigned on a fugitive warrant out of Meigs County, Ohio, in connection with a January arrest for two felony counts of arson. Bond for that incident was set at $50,000. The other two suspects, 33-year-old Oscar Gibson, Jr. and 20-year-old Cory Robinson were arrested Wednesday and arraigned that night on felony charges of night-time burglary. They are being held on a $50,000 bond and are in the North Central Regional Jail. All three are being held on charges that they allegedly robbed 33-year-old Brent Butler before allegedly stabbing him to death in a wooded area behind his trailer near Elizabeth.
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