| MAN FIRES SHOT NEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN - A Kanawha County man asked his wife to meet him in a parking lot so he could tell their children he loved them but instead fired a gunshot, fled the scene and dumped the firearm near an elementary school, according to Kanawha authorities.
Gary Arthur Lacy Jr., 35, was arrested about a mile from Point Harmony Elementary School.
Sara Lacy and two young children were in a car. She told police her husband shot a gun in front of her and her children, and officers found a .380 semi-automatic casing on the ground.
Police said the woman agreed to meet her husband, despite having filed a protective order against.
The accused threw the gun from his vehicle in the street near a school.
Lacy was charged with wanton endangerment for the incident and domestic assault for a Sunday incident.
He is being held at South Central Regional Jail on $27,000 bond.
MAN STABS NEPHEW - A Charleston man is in jail after police say he stabbed his nephew.
Police say Eric Long, 42, and his nephew Eugene Long, 20, got into a fight just after midnight, stabbing Eugene in the hand.
Eric Long is charged with malicious wounding.
BURGLAR CAUGHT IN ACT - A burglar in Huntington was caught in the act, and the victim says the suspect was lucky to leave with his life.
During a break from work, Raymond Bayes went to his house, saying a girl was sitting in a car in his driveway, and Bayes saw that someone had broken into his home.
Bayes called 911, then went inside and grabbed a knife.
"I heard somebody struggling coming down the steps," Bayes said, the suspect carrying an air conditioner.
He told the burglar not to move, but he fled.
Bayes says he tried to stop the thieves one more time.
Huntington police caught up with the suspect.
The suspect got away on foot, but his car and the stolen property retrieved.
"He's lucky I'm not cleaning up his blood right now," Bayes said. "Somebody else comes in here and I see them, they're dead. That's just the way it is."
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