{Princeton, West Virginia}...Mercer County Magistrate Rick Fowler found 57 year old Jerry Buckner, the brother of former Mercer County Sheriff and magistrate Harold Buckner, stabbed to death inside his home in Princeton on March 1st. Tuesday, 59 year old Gerald Wayne Little was charged with first-degree murder, and Mercer County Circuit Court Judge Omar Aboulhosn revoked Little's bond eligibility after he was arrested last week by State Police Troopers for failing to list his address with the sex offender registry. Princeton Police Sgt. J.W. Howell says Jerry Buckner hired Little to do odd jobs around his house when Little was staying in one of his rental properties, and Howell says he believes Buckner's killing might have been a failed robbery attempt. Little spent time in prison after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of his brother in September 2005 in Wyoming County. Shortly after being released, he plead guilty to unlawful wounding and first-degree sexual abuse in an attack on his girlfriend in September 2007 in Raleigh County. He was released from Denmar Correctional Center on those charges last year.
