Murder Trial Underway

{Point Pleasant, West Virginia}…Jury selection began Tuesday morning in the murder trial for 31 year old Chad McCallister of Apple Grove. McCallister is one of the three men charged with the murder of 43 year old Rene Gonzalez who was found dead at his home in Gallipolis Ferry, in Mason County, on July 11, 2011. Investigators say McCallister was the mastermind behind a murder-for-hire plot to kill Gonzalez. Co-defendant 25 year old Matthew Woods of Gallipolis Ferry pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder and is expected to testify during McCallister’s trial. Steven Adkins, Jr., 26, of Gallipois, Ohio, still awaits trial set for March 2013.