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UPDATE: DEPUTIES KILL WOMAN IN PURSUIT - Police have released the name of a Morgantown woman who was fatally shot by officers during a pursuit as 45-year-old Christie L. Cathers.
The sheriff's office says the woman was fatally shot on Friday after she tried to run over a deputy.
Media outlets report two deputies involved in the shooting have been placed on paid leave pending the completion of the investigation.
The sheriff's office says deputies were responding to a report of someone brandishing a knife when the woman attempted to flee. Police say she drove her vehicle toward a deputy and struck the sheriff's cruiser.
Deputies fired into the moving vehicle, killing the woman.
ORIGINAL STORY - The Monongalia County Sheriff's Department is investigating an incident where a woman was shot, and killed by a deputy on Friday.
Sheriff deputies were dispatched at 3 p.m. to a brandishing call involving a knife, according to a press release.
After arriving on scene, the suspect attempted to run over a sheriff deputy and fled the scene.
A chase led sheriff deputies and the suspect onto Finch Road authorities attempted to get the woman stopped.
The suspect drove vehicle her vehicle at a sheriff deputy striking his cruiser.
A deputy shot, and struck the suspect in her vehicle, causing it to stop.
The suspect was pronounced dead on scene.
Two deputies have been put on administrative leave.
KANAWHA STABBING -Deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said a warrant has been issued for Earnest Lee Lovejoy, 38, of Cross Lanes.
Lovejoy stabbed another man near a West Washington Street gas station Friday.
The victim was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Dispatchers say that the victim got into an altercation with three men and a woman. One of the men allegedly stabbed the victim.
Dispatchers also say that the three men and woman fled the scene after the stabbing.
FORMER WVU PLAYER ARRESTED - A former West Virginia University football player and two other men were arrested for their involvement in an armed robbery in Morgantown last week.
D'Vante Henry, 22, of Oklahoma City, was arrested Wednesday night on Brockway Avenue after the incident, said Morgantown Police. Henry was a former linebacker for the Mountaineers until he was arrested for sexual assault in September 2013 and subsequently kicked off the team.
Matthew Farmer, 24, and Adrian Morris, 23, were arrested for their involvement in the robbery.
According to the victim of the robbery, Henry, Farmer and Morris broke into her residence, waved a handgun, punched her in the face and choked her during the robbery. Three additional people were in the apartment but were not attacked during the incident, police said.
A cell phone and prescription medications were stolen during the robbery, the victim told police.
PARKERSBURG ROBBERY -
West Virginia State Police say a robbery
happened around 2 a.m. at the "Must be 21 to Enter" gambling place on Staunton Turnpike.
Investigators say the suspect used a gun to demand money and took off with an undetermined amount of cash.
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