{Wallback, West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police are investigating after a State Trooper was killed in the line of duty. During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Superintendent Colonel Jay Smithers said 22 year old Luke Baber of Oak Hill was pulled over for reckless driving about 8:30 P.M. Tuesday night at the Wallback Park and Ride off I-79 near the Roane-Clay county line. Smithers says Baber was intoxicated, so officers put him in the back of a cruiser. Baber pulled a hidden 9mm pistol and shot 42 year old Corporal Marshall Bailey and 26 year old Trooper Eric Workman. Baber took Trooper Workman's gun and used it to shoot William Massey, a tow truck driver with King's Wrecker Service, who had arrived to tow away Baber's vehicle. Massey, who was shot in the arm, was able to get away to call for help. Baber fled the scene, but deputies from Clay and Roane counties catch up with him in a wooded area, where a shootout occurred and Baber was shot and killed. Roane County Sheriff's Deputy John Westfall was injured during the shootout. Workman, from Clay County, who joined the force just last year, is hospitalized at Charleston Area Medical Center. Bailey died at the scene. Colonel Smithers says Baber stole the vehicle he was driving from Oak Hill, West Virginia and police believe he was on his way to Morgantown to meet his sister. Smithers says Baber had a criminal record including domestic battery, domestic assault, obstructing an officer and illegally possessing Xanax in December 2009.
