WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB

(03/25/2008)
GUNMAN SHOOTS WORKER, SELF - A gunman wounded a worker and then committed suicide at a Marsh Bellofram Plant in Newell, WV, in the state's Northern Panhandle.

Hancock County Sheriff Mike White said he believes the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute concerning the man's estranged girlfriend.

White says the man, who was in his 40s, was targeting a specific person.

The sheriff says the man entered the plant Monday afternoon and was asked to leave after speaking to some supervisory personnel.

He then pulled out a handgun as several employees escorted him out of the building and shot one worker several times in the shoulder.

He turned the gun on himself as some other workers attempted to subdue him.

Neither the victim or the gunman have been identified.

POLICE SHOOT MCDOWELL MAN AFTER HE PULLS GUN - State Police have shot and killed a McDowell County man after he pulled a gun.

Police killed the man in his bedroom, inside his home after they responded to a 911 call related to a domestic dispute.

Forty-one-year-old James R. Creech was dead at the scene Sunday night in Roderfield.

First Sgt. Gary Tincher says Creech also threatened family members with the gun.

Creech had warned troopers not to enter his home.

When three state troopers did, Creech brandished his gun and he was shot dead.

WOMAN FOUND SHOT TO DEATH - An investigation continued yesterday after a woman was found shot to death inside her New Cumberland home.

Her boyfriend was taken into police custody.

Police said Charles William Rice is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the case.

Sheriff Mike White said Rice shot Shari Paris in the head, while a small child was at the home at the time.