| CHARLESTON MAN STABBED - Police say a man was stabbed in Charleston late Friday afternoon, but wouldn't tell who stabbed him.
James Clendenin, of Charleston, was stabbed in the stomach on 26th Street West in Charleston around 5:45 p.m. Friday, according to a Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher.
Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper said Clendenin is recovering.
Police don't have a suspect.
FEDS INVESTIGATING STATE POLICE SHOOTING -
The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the case of a Mercer County teenager who was shot and killed last year by a West Virginia State Police trooper after a physical altercation.
"We are carefully reviewing all of the information provided, . . . as well as additional materials," said Vanita Gupta, acting assistant U.S. attorney general and leader of the Civil Rights Division.
The review concerns the case of Timothy Hill, 18, who was at the foot of his driveway near Kegley when Senior Trooper B.D. Gillespie shot and killed him last June after a brief confrontation and struggle.
During the struggle, Gillespie pepper-sprayed Hill and they both tumbled to the bottom of a ditch where Gillespie said Hill reached for the trooper's gun. Gillespie then shot Hill twice, once in the head and once in the chest.
The Charleston Gazette says the 1 a.m. confrontation that led to Hill's shooting could have been linked some wet underwear that two other boys had thrown on Gillespie's cruiser as a prank after they went swimming.
Hill and Gillespie had at least one previous run-in, concerning Hill riding a dirt bike in the street.
In October, a Mercer County grand jury decided not to indict Gillespie on any charges after an investigation led by a fellow state trooper and Mercer Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ash.
In WV, the WV State Police investigate their own incidents, and have long opposed an independent review board.
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