| UPDATE - A U.S. marshal says two fugitives were lying in wait when marshals and West Virginia troopers tried to arrest them at a campsite, and opened fire when they were ordered to surrender.
The officers returned fire, killing 26-year-old Dale Maverick Hudson of Burnsville and wounding 36-year-old Peggy Chaffin of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Alex Neville says a deputy marshal aboard a helicopter spotted Hudson and Chaffin at the site in woods in Braxton County on Monday. The pair, armed with rifles, sought cover behind a fallen tree.
Neville says U.S. marshals were searching for Chaffin after she walked away from a halfway house in eastern Kentucky. They developed information that she was with Hudson in West Virginia.
He says Hudson was wanted on parole charges in eastern Kentucky.
ORIGINAL STORY - A Braxton County man was shot and killed Monday in an attempt by State Police and U.S. Marshals to arrest a fugitive, troopers said.
Troopers with the Special Operations Unit went with investigators from the U.S. Marshal Service Monday afternoon to a wooded area near Three Lick Road near the Braxton and Lewis County lines, to try to capture a woman wanted by federal authorities, according to a statement issued by State Police.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was believed to be with a man identified as Dale Maverick Hudson, 26, of Burnsville. Hudson also is wanted, on a burglary charge in another state.
Investigators found the two, announced their presence and ordered both to surrender, but instead the pair opened fire on the law enforcement officers, the statement reads. Officers returned fire, striking both.
Hudson died at the scene from his wounds. The woman suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was flown to WVU Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.
No officers were injured in the incident.
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