Incident

1-20-2023 West Virginia Jumping Branch 1-1

Location

January 20, 2023

Streeter Rd and Ellison Ridge Rd
Jumping Branch, West Virginia

Participants

  • Type: Victim
  • Name: Stephen James Stephens
  • Age Group: Adult 18+
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Killed
  • Type: Subject-Suspect
  • Relationship: Armed Robbery
  • Name: Kaine William Durham
  • Age: 26
  • Age Group: Adult 18+
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Unharmed, Arrested

Incident Characteristics

  • Shot - Dead (murder, accidental, or suicide)
  • Armed robbery with injury/death and/or evidence of DGU found
  • LOCKDOWN/ALERT ONLY: No GV Incident Occurred Onsite
  • Possession of gun by felon or prohibited person

Notes

Summers County, man stabbed again and shot to death after driven with hands bound from earlier robbery at Dawg-Gone Pet Salon on City Ave in Beckley, another suspect (Brian Bolon) also dead but COD not given; unclear if same as report of man shot and kidnapped with woman, shelter-in-place order in Nimitz

Guns Involved

1 gun involved.

  • Type: Unknown

District

Congressional District: 1
State Senate District: 10
State House District: 41