| LOGAN MAN TAKES HOSTAGES IN DRUG STORE - Customers and workers escaped from a tense hostage situation in Logan County Monday.
The incident began at about 1 p.m. at the Family Discount Pharmacy on Route 10 in Stollings, just south of Logan. A man, identified as Jeff Harvey, entered the store waving and firing a shotgun, yelling for people to get out.
All but four workers and two male customers were able to leave the store. Harvey said he wanted pills and then he wanted to die, and started taking a combination of Xanax and Lortab.
Police said after he took 10 pills, he became drowsy and one of the customers took advantage of the situation. The customer punched the gunman while the other customer took the gun and hit the man in the back of the head.
As the hostages were running out of the store, the police stormed the pharmacy and the suspect ran into an upstairs office where some sort of altercation occurred before he was subdued and taken away in an ambulance.
RAVENSWOOD MAN MURDERS FATHER - A 22-year-old Ravenswood man is being held in the South Central Regional Jail on charges of murdering his father.
Police have charged 22-year-old Scott Allen Harrison in the stabbing death of his father, 49-year-old Roy Lee Harrison.
Ravenswood Police Chief Bill Sinnett stated that the men were involved in an altercation, during which the younger Harrison allegedly stabbed his father in the throat and left the residence.
The man then drove to the Jackson County Office of Emergency Services where he turned himself in and confessed killing his father.
This is the second murder in Ravenswood in the last 12 months.
MURDER-SUICIDE LIKELY IN LOGAN - State Police are investigating the shooting deaths of a couple in Logan County. Family members found the bodies of 70-year-old Lindsey Whited Senior and his girlfriend, 69-year-old Ramona Trent of Gilbert in Whited's mobile home in Accoville Hollow. Police said both had been shot to death sometime between Thursday and Saturday.
POLICE CHASE ENDS IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT - A police chase Saturday that resulted in a stand-off at a Knight's Inn in Kanawha City ended with attempted suicide.
A man identified as Robert Ferrell barricaded himself inside a room, after which he shot himself in the head. He is in serious condition at CAMC.
Officers tried to pull Ferrell over for a traffic violation. They say he took off and led them on a chase to MacCorkle Avenue and through Kanawha City.
Police say he was going to meet a woman at the Knights Inn. When Ferrell pulled in, investigators say he jumped out of the car, fired at least one shot at police, after which he sent his pit bull to attack the officers. Police shot and killed the dog.
Police tried to negotiate with Ferrell, saying that the man did not have any demands.
THE WEST SIDE NEWS - Police say a Charleston man pulled over because he thought a man needed help on the West Side. That wasn't the case. The man on the side of the road turned around and stabbed the good Samaritan at least twice early Sunday morning.
Police were also investigating an early morning drive-by shooting in the same neighborhood.
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