| A WILD CHASE - A police officer shot at a Clendenin man after he tried to strike the officer with his vehicle Sunday, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
The complaint says the suspect attempted to ram a cruiser several times.
Police followed the man after he created a disturbance at a Go-Mart in Elkview.
An off-duty officer called Kanawha County Metro 911 after Wesley James Taylor, 23, of Clendenin, was "acting crazy" at the Go-Mart on Frame Road, according to the complaint,
"harassing customers" in the parking lot.
Officers tried to stop Taylor when they saw him driving by with their cruiser.
The complaint says officers approached the vehicle with weapons drawn, and told Taylor to turn off and exit the vehicle. According to the complaint, he wouldn't comply, and was reaching for something in the center console.
The officer said that he attempted to break the driver's side window with a baton and Taylor attempted to strike him with the vehicle, and he then fired one round into the vehicle.
Taylor fled again with police in pursuit.
Later in the pursuit, Taylor allegedly swerved left and again struck the cruiser.
Shortly after that, Taylor allegedly attempted to strike a state trooper standing alongside the road.
Officers had also deployed spike strips, damaging two passenger side tires of Taylor's vehicle, the complaint says.
Taylor allegedly fled again, but his vehicle was finally disabled by the spike strips in the area of Roane Street in Charleston.
Officers used a stun gun on Taylor after he didn't comply and was running away.
The complaint says officer went "hands on" with Taylor near a concrete wall along 119 and tased him a fourth time, and he was eventually detained.
Taylor was taken to CAMC General for medical evaluation.
He was charged with two counts of attempted malicious assault of a police officer, fleeing using a vehicle, fleeing on foot and reckless driving.
Tuesday, he was listed as being lodged in the South Central Regional Jail on $50,000 bail.
MAN SUICIDES WHO SHOT OFFICER - One of the men accused in a crime spree that spanned three states, including West Virginia, has commited suicide in a NC jail.
The Granville County Sheriff's Department confirms that Edward Campbell, 54, was died Tuesday after hanging himself in a cell.
Campbell and his son, Eric Campbell, 21, stood accused of robbing an elderly couple, murdering them, and setting their house on fire in NC.
On New Year's Day this year police arrested the pair when they were pulled over in Lewisburg, West Virginia, nearly 200 miles north of Oxford, and starting a shootout with two members of the Lewisburg Police Department.
Those two officers are now back on the job.
The Campbells are from Alvin, Texas.One of the men accused in a crime spree that spanned three states, including West Virginia, has died.
A dispatcher with the Granville County Sheriff's Department confirms to WSAZ that Edward Campbell, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday.
According to affiliate WNCN, correctional officers at Raleigh (N.C.) Central Prison were doing a routine inmate count when they found Campbell dead about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday after hanging himself in his prison cell.
Campbell and his son, Eric Campbell, 21, stood accused of robbing an elderly couple, murdering them, and setting their house on fire.
It happened in Oxford, North Carolina, on New Year's Day this year. Police arrested the pair when they were pulled over in Lewisburg, West Virginia, nearly 200 miles north of Oxford, and starting a shootout with two members of the Lewisburg Police Department.
Those two officers are now back on the job.
The Campbells are from Alvin, Texas.
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