Trooper Under Investigation

{Bluefield, West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police Trooper J.R. Coburn, a former Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy from Princeton, who fatally shot a man in Mercer County, is under investigation for fatally shooting 34 year old Jackie Spalding Jr., who had a rifle in a Bluewell cemetery on January 29th. Coburn, from the Welch detachment, fatally shot Stephen Lawrence Knight, Jr., 31, from Villarica, Georgia, Friday night. Knight was handcuffed inside a Bluefield police car but somehow moved his hands in front of him, climbed into the driver's seat and fled. The shooting occurred during a subsequent foot chase. State Police say the suspect refused to put down a weapon, and Coburn fired.