WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - 14-Year-Old Holds Hostages With Gun At Phillip-Barbour High

(08/26/2015)
STUDENT HOLDS HOSTAGES - West Virginia State Police say a 14-year-old boy held several students and a teacher hostage in a high school classroom before he let them go and eventually was taken into custody.

No injuries were reported.

State Police Lt. Michael Baylous says in a news release that the boy had a pistol in a second-floor classroom Tuesday at Philip Barbour High School.

Baylous says after local authorities received a call about the matter at 1:30 p.m., the school was placed on lock down, and students elsewhere in the school were moved to the school's football field, accounted for and sent home by school bus.

Baylous says that after initial negotiations, the suspect agreed to release the students and teacher and then eventually put the gun down and surrendered without further incident.

Baylous says the suspect has been taken to a hospital for evaluation.

ROBBERY SHOOTING - Two men involved in a robbery resulted in one person being shot in Monongalia County have been arrested.

Officers of the Morgantown Police Department responded to a report of a gunshot wound victim being treated at Ruby Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

Investigators identified Christopher Mark Henry, 24, of Beckley, as a suspect in the case.

Monday, Detectives of the Morgantown Police Department and the U.S. Marshall's Mountain State Fugitive Task Force located Henry, where members of the Morgantown Police Department Special Response Team served search and arrest warrants. He was arrested without incident.

Meanwhile, Aaron Marquice Craig, 23, of Monongalia County, was also identified as a suspect and arrested without incident.

Henry faces charges of Malicious Wounding, Robbery and Conspiracy, while Craig is charged with Robbery and Conspiracy.