| DQ ARMED HOLD-UP - The Parkersburg Police are investigating an armed hold-up at a 7th St. Dairy Queen. A masked 6'2 white male entered the Dairy Queen with a hand gun and demanded an undisclosed amount of money and then fled on foot.
GLEEFUL SHOOTER GETS PRISON SENTENCE -
A Charleston woman who shot her husband seven times, then opened a beer and danced around his body, has been sentenced in Kanawha Circuit Court to two to 10 years in prison.
Crystal Renee Patterson, 29, pleaded guilty to malicious wounding with the use of a firearm.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bobby Miller described Patterson's behavior as "irrational and paradoxical," best understood in the context of battered wife syndrome.
Dr. Miller said Crystal Patterson was an abused spouse for a long duration of time. He said she had continued a sexual relationship with her now ex-husband after she shot him.
WHEELING MAN SENTENCE FOR SHOOTING REPO MEN - An Ohio County man who was convicted of shooting at two men who were sent to repossess a rented television, will spend up to five decades behind bars.
Thirty-five-year-old Charles Edward Brown was sentenced in Ohio County Circuit Court on two counts of attempted murder and one count each of assault during commission of a felony, wanton endangerment with a firearm, malicious assault, and possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.
Brown fired five or six shots while two employees of the Bridgeport Rent-A-Center were at his Valley Grove home to remove a 51-inch television set and living room furniture.
One of the bullets hit and injured James Siburt. Brown also pointed a gun at the head of the second Rent-A-Center employee, Eric Rowe.
Brown told authorities after his arrest that he was mad because he had rented a 57-inch television but instead received a 51-inch set.
CHARLESTON TEENS KILL FOR CHANGE - Three Charleston teens will be wearing prison orange for 10 to 40 years. Fifteen-year-old Ronald Hambleton and 17-year-old Daniel Botkin pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery of 25-year-old Joshua Boggess. The fate of a third teen is to be decided.
The murder happened in a parking garage in mid-town Charleston near the Charleston Town Center.
The victim was leaving work at the Town Center Mall when he crossed paths with the three teens. He only had change in his pocket.
Boggess was engaged to get married and died just a month before the birth of his son Joshua Maddox Boggess, now 4-months-old.
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