(Williamson, WV) - Residents across Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky have spent
much of the afternoon in shock after hearing the news that Mingo County West
Virginia Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot and killed. According to WV State Police and area
emergency officials, the shooting happened just after noon, while Crum was on
his lunch break. Officials say Sheriff
Crum was sitting in his SUV in a parking lot on the corner of 3rd and
Harvey Streets when a male subject who has now been identified as 37 year old
Tennis Melvin Maynard approached the Sheriff’s vehicle and fired a weapon into
the vehicle, killing Crum. West Virginia
State Police reported that a witness saw Maynard fleeing the scene of the
shooting in a pickup truck, and got the license number. A Mingo County deputy attempted to stop
Maynard at the intersection of Route 65 and Rockhouse Road, but he fled…leading
the deputy on a chase through parts of Delbarton before both vehicles crashed
at the Dr. JR Bob Farley Memorial Bridge.
After that, both Maynard and the deputy got out of their vehicles…and
the deputy shot Maynard. There is no
word yet as to whether or not Maynard was armed at the time he was shot. We do
know, however, that Tennis Melvin Maynard was transported to Logan Regional
Medical Center ,
and then to Cabell
Huntington Hospital
