WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Three Dead In Domestic Dispute, Underwear Robber Arrested

(02/16/2008)
THREE DEAD IN DOMESTIC DISPUTE - The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department says a man shot and killed his wife and another man before killing himself Saturday in Sissonville.

Lieutenant Sean Crosier says Edgar "Eddie" Sigmond, 43, shot his wife Gina Renee Sigmond, 42, and her friend Steve Woodall, 52, of Huntington.

Eddie Sigmon then turned the gun on himself.

Police said the Sigmonds had a long standing history of domestic violence.

Lt. Crosier said on February 11, Gina Sigmond obtained a Family Violence Protective Order against her husband, which was served February 14 when he was pulled over for a traffic stop.

During the traffic stop, he was also arrested on a worthless check warrant and charged with driving on a revoked operators license.

The domestic order prohibited any type of contact or communication with his wife.

Saturday morning before the shooting, Police says Gina met with deputies at a store in Sissonville about 30 minutes before the tragedy.

They said they advised her to go to magistrate court to obtain "a supplemental order allowing law enforcement to be present while she obtained additional belongings."

Lt. Crosier says she didn't get the order and went directly to the house, after which the shooting happened.

GO-MART SHOOTING - Charleston police are investigating a shooting that happened at a gas station on the city's west side at 11 p.m. today at the Go-Mart on Bigley Avenue.

They say Brandon Neal, 28 of Charleston, shot Chaz Hall, 19 of Charleston, in the torso and hand.

Multiple shots fired during the shooting.

Police say Hall is currently in surgery.

Neal is in the South Central Regional Jail.

This Go-Mart is the same gas station where Gary Carrier Jr. was shot and killed in 2001.

He was the first of at least 3 victims shot sniper-style in Kanawha County in less than a week's time.

All three of those murders remain unsolved.

HUNTINGTON POLICE SHOOT SUSPECT - It happened in the drive-thru at a Arby's Restaurant in Huntington.

Acting on a tip, members of the Huntington Drug Task Force say they started following a car in which the suspect was a passenger.

The suspect they were after, James Henry Worden, was wanted in at least one of recent hold-up at the Budget Pharmacy.

Police say they shot a suspect, not identifying Worden.

Detectives said the suspect they shot had a fully loaded weapon and they felt he was a threat to officers and other people in the area of the restaurant.

The driver of the car, an unidentified woman, was not hurt.

THE UNDERWEAR ROBBERY - A robbery suspect tried to hide his face with a pair of underwear, but the disguise didn't fool witnesses.

Police arrested 40-year-old Jerry Keene and 48-year-old Elizabeth Blankenship, both of English,WV a short time after the pair allegedly robbed the Hillbilly Market this week.

McDowell County sheriff's Chief Deputy Mark Shelton says Blankenship went into the convenience store and then left.

Keene then entered, concealing his face with the underwear, allegedly showed a gun and demanded money. Shelton says witnesses identified the suspect, despite the underwear disguise.

Each have been charged with armed robbery.