WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Mall Hold-Up, Mysterious Stabbing, Hunting Death

(12/09/2011)
BRIDGEPORT MALL HEIST - Bridgeport Police have arrested a man in connection with an armed robbery at Meadowbrook Mall.

Chad Haught, 31, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of armed robbery and three counts of fraudulent use of a device.

Haught is in the North Central Regional jail and bail is set at $250,000.

Police were able to apprehend Haught because he used a credit card at Big Lots that belonged to the woman that he robbed.

Police say a warrant is out for another man who is believed to be part of the incident.

The hold-up would be big news anytime at the mall, but the mall was packed for the midnight premiere of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn."

Haught robbed the woman near the food court parking lot, authorities said. Police quickly began looking for the man who was armed with a gun.

FATHER SHOOTS SON ACCIDENTALLY WHILE HUNTING - A Virginia deer hunter is dead after his father's rifle discharged while being unloaded near Gaps Mill.

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources says 18-year-old Travis B. Smith of Waynesboro was fatally shot when a rifle discharged as his father, 37-year-old Thomas Scott Wright of Fisherville, Va., was unloading it near the pair's vehicle.

The incident remains under investigation.

MYSTERIOUS STABBING - Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies are trying to figure out a mysterious stabbing incident in West Dunbar.

Larry Terrence Martin, 22, called 911 at about 5 a.m. to report that he had awakened to find that he had been stabbed in the leg.

Martin told a dispatcher he didn't know how he got stabbed or who might have stabbed him.

Martin told deputies he had been bar hopping in Charleston the night before, and went home with a friend. Crosier said deputies found a knife believed to have been used in the stabbing, and continue to investigate.

Martin was taken to the hospital.

PIZZA HOLD-UP IN PARKERSBURG - Detectives with the Parkersburg Police Department have arrested Bradley McAtee on one felony count of first degree armed robbery.

A criminal complaint says McAtee pulled a gun on a pizza delivery person while demanding the victim empty his pockets and hand over his belongings.

The victim was not injured.