Man Dies In Mercer County Stand-Off

{Bluewell, West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police say 34 year old Jackie Spalding Jr. of Colorado was fatally shot Sunday at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bluewell, in Mercer County, during a stand-off with police. The Mercer County 911 Center received a call at 6:15 P.M. about Spalding holding a deer rifle to his chest at the cemetery. When officers with the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department and the West Virginia State Police Princeton Detachment arrived on the scene, Spalding initially fled from the officers, but he was located a short time later on a service road behind the cemetery’s mausoleum. Sgt. M.T. Baylous says, as one of the troopers and a deputy approached the vehicle, they instructed Spalding to show his hands, but  he failed to comply with their repeated commands, and instead reached down to grab the weapon. At that time, the trooper fatally wounded him.