| MASON BOY KILLED BY PELLET GUN - Children were playing with a pellet gun in a Mason County trailer when the gun discharged and killed a 12-year-old boy.
Dead is Jeremy Tyler Stump, who lived in the community of West Columbia.
Stump was struck in the chest, according to the Mason County Sheriff's department.
A brother ran to a neighbor's house for help.
Deputies arrived and performed CPR until emergency services workers could provide life support and transport the boy to Pleasant Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
WOULDN'T GIVE THE MONEY - A Huntington man was stabbed at least four times in the arm after he refused to give a man his money.
The man was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center for treatment.
Huntington police officers arrived on the scene but the suspect had already left the area.
FORK STABBING - A Charleston man was stabbed in the back Tuesday evening at a home on the West side, Watts Street.
Police say the man was stabbed with a large fork by his roommate.
His name and condition has not been released. Police are still looking for his roommate.
Neighbors have spotted him since the stabbing.
Police say once he's found he will likely face domestic assault charges.
WETZEL MAN STABS TWO WOMEN - Edward Bates, 23, of Jacksonburg, was arraigned Monday in a Wetzel County Court after two women were stabbed Sunday night.
After Bates left the scene around 4 p.m. Sunday he reportedly crashed into a creek.
The two women were taken to Wetzel County Hospital for treatment and released.
It's still unclear if his injuries were a result of the attack. The sherrif said it may be a domestic issue, and one of the women might be a wife or ex-wife.
MAN APOLOGIZES TO EX-WIFE FOR SLASHING THROAT - A Dunbar man wept and apologized to his ex-wife as he was being sentenced to 29 years in prison for cutting her throat and trying to set her on fire.
"I did not go to our house to hurt you," David Harold Eilola, 50, said to his ex-wife, Cheryl Jennings.
"I don't know why I snapped, when I snapped, but I did ... I heard voices, and I did the best that I could."
Eilola was convicted of attempted murder, malicious wounding, battery, violating a domestic violence protective order and fourth-degree arson after a trial in April.
The jury heard evidence that Eilola cut Jennings' chin and throat with a knife, then doused her in kerosene and tried to light her on fire during a divorce dispute.
Jennings described the trauma, humiliation and fear she has felt since the event, saying
"I see in the mirror every day the scar I will wear on my face for the rest of my life. In my mind, I see the smile on the face of the man who put that scar there."
Eilola, who has already spent 16 months in jail, said that Jennings had nothing to fear from him in the future.
Kanawha County prosecutor Rob Schulenberg asked the judge to impose the harshest sentence possible.
"[Eilola] is a manipulative person who, if he does not get his way, destroys," Schulenberg said. "The only way that [Jennings] will be safe and that society will be safe is if this court puts David Eilola in jail for the maximum time allowed."
Eilola's will be eligible for parole 6 1/2 years into a 29-year term.
"Give the man an Emmy, because that was quite a performance," said his ex-wife.
LIFE WITHOUT MERCY - A man accused in a fatal 2006 Logan stabbing will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of first-degree murder.
A Logan County jury returned the guilty with no mercy verdict against 47-year-old Paul Newcomb.
Police say Newcomb went to the home of 34-year-old Dennis Toler with a dagger in hand, and started the altercation that led to the stabbing.
The defense argued the stabbing was self defense.
Some of the 13 stab wounds were to the victim's back, indicating he was trying to get away from his attacker.
MAN KILLS FATHER AND FLEES -
A Monroe County man is accused of fatally shooting his father with two black powder rifles is in custody after an 18-hour manhunt.
Canine units tracked down 51-year-old Daniel Joseph Flerx.
Police say Flerx was found at about 11:25 a.m. yesterday hiding in a wooded area about a mile from his Wolf Creek home.
He was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 75-year-old father, Edward Flerx. State Police say the elder Flerx was shot twice with two black powder rifles at about 6 p.m. Monday at the victim's residence.
Daniel Flerx is accused of chasing his mother, Jo Ann Flerx, with an ax.
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