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Lincoln County Man Charged in Shooting Death, Wounding

A Lincoln County man has been charged in a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded.Forty-eight-year-old Andrew Staggs faces murder and…

  A Lincoln County man has been charged in a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded.

Forty-eight-year-old Andrew Staggs faces murder and malicious wounding charges. State Police Capt. Dave Nelson says Staggs shot 29-year-old Katie Toler and 36-year-old Chad Mays, both of Branchland, early Monday. Toler was killed. Mays was in intensive care at CAMC General Hospital.

Nelson says Toler and Mays apparently got into an argument with Staggs outside his house. According to a criminal complaint, Staggs fired four shots.

Staggs was being held without bail Monday afternoon at the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville.

Multistate Crime Spree Leaves Two Dead, Three Wounded

UPDATED: January 2, 2015, 1:33 PM

Authorities say a father and son’s multistate crime spree left a North Carolina couple dead and their home torched before the suspects were caught after a New Year’s Day shootout that wounded two police officers in West Virginia.

West Virginia State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said Friday that the suspects are 21-year-old Eric Campbell and 54-year-old Edward Campbell from Texas.

Police say officers pulled over a truck and an SUV around 4 p.m. Thursday on a highway outside Lewisburg.

Police say the truck’s driver opened fire, wounding both officers. Police say suspect Edward Campbell was the shooter and also was injured.

Authorities took both men into custody and say two recently deceased bodies were inside the truck.

The officers and suspect were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

Police say the officers involved were Lt. Jeromy Dove, a 16-year-old veteran and patrolman Nicholas Sams, about three weeks out of training.

Both were wearing bulletproof vests and are on temporary administrative leave.

Original Post: January 2, 2015, 10:56 AM

Police have identified two men they say shot at officers who pulled them over and found two bodies in one of their stolen vehicles.

West Virginia State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said Friday that the suspects are 21-year-old Eric Campbell and 54-year-old Edward Campbell from Texas. Police have said the two reported that they’re father and son.

State Police say officers pulled over a truck and an SUV around 4 p.m. Thursday on a highway outside Lewisburg.

Police say the truck’s driver opened fire, wounding both officers. Police say suspect Edward Campbell was the shooter and also was injured.

Authorities took both men into custody and say two recently deceased bodies were inside the truck.

An emergency dispatch official says the officers and suspect were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

State Police didn’t identify the victims, but North Carolina’s Granville County Sheriff Brindell B. Wilkins Jr. told Raleigh TV station WRAL that the bodies were those of Jerome Faulkner, 73, and his wife, Dora Faulkner, 62.

Lt. Baylous confirmed the identities of the two police officers involved in the shooting as Lt. Jeromy Dove and Officer Nicholas Sams.

Two Officers Shot in Greenbrier County, Two Suspects in Custody

On Thursday, January 1, 2015, at approximately 4:00 pm, two officers from the Lewisburg Police Department conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 64 West near the Lewisburg Exit.  A white Chevrolet SUV had a North Carolina license plate which was in NCIC as a stolen plate.  During the traffic stop, a red Chevrolet truck pulled over as well.

As the officers were conducting the traffic stop, the driver of the red truck pulled a handgun and shot at both officers.  Both officers were wounded.  One of the officers was able to respond to the threat with his department issued firearm, resulting in the suspect being wounded in the leg.  The driver of the white SUV left the scene.

The shooting suspect went over the hillside and was eventually taken into custody by the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department.  The other suspect drove behind a guardrail on the interstate and hid for a short amount of time.  Eventually, he walked up to the Interstate and turned himself into law enforcement without incident. The identity of the suspects has yet to be verified.  They claim to be father and son, with the father being the shooter.

During a search of the Chevrolet truck, two recently deceased bodies were discovered in the bed of the truck, under a mattress.  It is believed that the victims are from North Carolina.  The West Virginia State Police has been in contact with law enforcement officials in North Carolina in an attempt to identify the victims.  All information concerning the deceased victims will be released by North Carolina authorities at their discretion.

Both officers were transported to Greenbrier Medical Center for treatment to their wounds.  Information related to their identity and status will be released by the Lewisburg Police Department at their discretion.  The two suspects will be arrested for malicious assault and attempted murder of a police officer in Greenbrier County.

On Twitter, WOWK and WSAZ posted updates from the scene that there could be a possible third suspect, still at large.

 

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