Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Police Investigating Multiple Shooting Deaths

{West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police are investigating after troopers responded to a home on Sugar Grove Road in Monongalia County around 6:30 P.M. Monday and found Charles Richardson, 49, his wife, Karen Richardson, 50, her children, 17 year old Kevin Hudson and 22 year old Katrina Hudson, who was pregnant, and an acquaintance, 30 year old Robert Raber, inside the home with fatal gunshot wounds. State police believe Shayne Riggleman, 22 of Morgantown, used a high-powered rifle to shoot the victims, stole a Jeep Cherokee that belonged to Charles Richardson and headed to a female friend's house in Fairchance, Pennsylvania. During that trip, Riggleman hit another vehicle driven by an elderly woman, and, when she got out of the vehicle, he hit her with the SUV he was driving. Riggleman then drove down Interstate 79, stopping in Roane County where he shot Donnie Nichols, an employee at an Exxon station in Amma, after he tried to take a car owned by Nichols. Riggleman then headed to Lewis County, Kentucky, where sheriff's deputies chased him near Spy Run Cemetery Road before pulling him over. When deputies approached the vehicle, Riggleman shot himself with a .30-30 rifle. Officers found a high-powered rifle, a second rifle and a .22 handgun in Riggleman's vehicle. Police say say Riggleman was an "acquaintance" of the five victims in Morgantown.