Thursday, July 21, 2011

Homicide On Charleston's West Side

  • {West Virginia}...Charleston Police are investigating after a body was found in an apartment complex on Beuhring Avenue on the city's West Side Thursday morning. Police say Bradie Dunlap, 60, was drinking with Kenneth Carter, 51, Wednesday night, and Carter struck Dunlap in the head with a baseball bat. Carter was charged with malicious wounding. Dunlap was taken to Charleston Area Medical Center General, and, from the hospital, he called police to check on his roommate. A patrol unit went to the apartment Thursday morning and found a man dead on a bed with signs of trauma. Police say the apartment was in disarray and blood was found surrounding the victim's body. Investigators are treating the case as a homicide
investigation.