Kanawha County Jury Convicts Man

• {Charleston, West Virginia}...After deliberating for about four hours Monday, a Kanawha County jury found Kenneth Eugene Carter guilty of first-degree murder in the beating death of 51 year old Ronald Forton and guilty of malicious wounding in connection to the beating of 52 year old Brady Dunlap. Prosecutors say that, on July 20th, Carter, Dunlap and Forton, had been drinking heavily and arguing in the home the men shared at Buehring Avenue. Carter allegedly accused the other two men, who were lovers, of having an affair with his wife. Prosecutors say, after the argument died down, Carter picked up a baseball bat and attacked Dunlap in the living room of the home, breaking his collarbone, shattering the bones behind his kneecap and fracturing his skull, then he entered the bedroom where Forton lay and beat him to death.