Thread: 4 dead following 3 shootings in West Virginia, police say

4 dead following 3 shootings in West Virginia, police say

Published December 01, 2014 Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – State police say four people are dead in three shootings in north-central West Virginia.

State police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous says two of the shootings happened in the Westover area and the other occurred in the Cheat Lake area in Monongalia County. All three shootings occurred Monday.

Baylous identified the two victims from the Cheat Lake shooting as 39-year-old Sharon Kay Berkshire of Westover.

911 director Mike Wolfe says police are searching for Jody Hunt in the case.

More details weren't immediately available.

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Suspect in West Virginia shooting rampage found dead after daylong manhunt

By Elahe Izadi December 1 at 8:45 PM


Jody Lee Hunt (Courtesy of West Virginia State Police)

Police in West Virginia said on Monday night that the suspect in a series of fatal shootings has been found dead.

The body of Jody Lee Hunt, a 39-year-old man from Westover, W.V., was discovered in his truck, hours after a shooting spree left four people dead and prompted police to launch a manhunt.

The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department and West Virginia State Police confirmed to CBS affiliate WDTV that Hunt was found dead “with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head off of U.S. Route 19 near the Monongalia and Marion County border.”

Police had spent hours Monday searching for Hunt after, they say, he apparently killed four people in a series of shooting incidents in the north-central part of the state.

Sharon Kay Berkshire, 39, and Michael David Frum, 28, were killed in one incident in the Cheat Lake area, the Charleston Gazette reported. Police said two other shootings occurred in the Westover area, the Associated Press reported.

Westover Police Sgt. John Morgan identified Doug Brady as the third victim, the Wall Street Journal reported. Earlier in the day, police were investigating a shooting incident at Doug’s Towing, which Brady owns.

“These are all people he has a relationship with, knows. It’s not random,” state police Lt. Michael Baylous told Reuters.

Berkshire had filed a domestic violence case against Hunt last month, the AP reported citing court documents, but no current protective orders were found.

Hunt was last seen wearing a white hat and was likely armed, the Dominion Post reported.

After the shootings, area schools went into lockdown. “We ask that everyone stay vigilant and use their discretion about whether they should leave their homes,” Monongalia County 911 director Mike Wolfe told the AP.

But nearby West Virginia University remains open.

“There is no immediate threat to West Virginia University’s campus.

The incident is not associated with WVU nor did it occur on or near campus,” astatement from the university read. Additional campus police patrols will be out monitoring the area, the university said.

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