CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department between Oct. 13 and 19:

East District
Greenbrier Street 1500 block, robbery, Oct. 13, 11:13 a.m.
Donnaly Street 500 block, grand larceny, Oct. 13, 11:30 a.m.
Shelton Avenue 200 block, breaking and entering, Oct. 13, 3 p.m.
Lee Street 400 block, shoplifting, Oct. 13, 4 p.m.
Court Street 300 block, petit larceny, Oct. 13, 4:45 p.m.
Washington Street 1300 block, shoplifting, Oct. 13, 7:23 p.m.
Renaissance Circle 1400 block, burglary, Oct. 13, 8:30 p.m.
Lee Street 400 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 3:20 p.m.
Quarrier Street 200 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 4 p.m.
Carte Street 900 block, burglary, Oct. 14, 4:30 p.m.
Brooks Street 400 block, battery, Oct. 15, 3:03 a.m.
Town Center Mall, petit larceny, Oct. 15, 7:13 p.m.
Lee Street 400 block, shoplifting, Oct. 15, 8:30 p.m.
Kanawha Boulevard 2600 block, breaking and entering, Oct. 15, 8:30 p.m.
Lewis Street 1500 block, petit larceny, Oct. 16, 12 a.m.
Lee Street 200 block, shoplifting, Oct. 16, 11:22 a.m.
Town Center Mall, shoplifting, Oct. 17, 11:40 a.m.
Laidley Street 300 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 18, 2:30 a.m.
Hillcrest Drive 300 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 19, 6:15 p.m.
Quarrier Street 200 block, shoplifting, Oct. 19, 6:15 p.m.
Washington Street 1300 block, shoplifting, Oct. 19, 10:50 a.m.

South District
MacCorkle Avenue 6400 block, robbery, Oct. 13, 10:50 a.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 11:57 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 4900 block, shoplifting, Oct. 15, 4:40 p.m.
RHL Boulevard 200 block, grand larceny, Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 4900 block, shoplifting, Oct. 15, 9 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 6400 block, petit larceny, Oct. 16, 5:45 a.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, petit larceny, Oct. 16, 1:30 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, robbery, Oct. 16, 1:30 p.m.
Virginia Avenue 5200 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 16, 6 p.m.
Virginia Avenue 5200 block, grand larceny, Oct. 16, 6 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 6500 block, shoplifting, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 5000 block, robbery, Oct. 16, 10:45 p.m.
Roanoke Trace 40 block, grand larceny, Oct. 17, 11:45 a.m.
Oakmont Road 1300 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 17, 5 p.m.
Victory Avenue 5700 block, burgarly, Oct. 17, 6:14 p.m.
Victory Avenue 5700 block, brandishing, Oct. 17, 6:14 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, petit larceny, Oct. 17, 6:30 p.m.
RHL Boulevard 200 block, shoplifting, Oct. 17, 7:20 p.m.
McGovern Road 100 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 17, 11 p.m.
69th Street 300 block, petit larceny, Oct. 19, 1 a.m.
Westminster Way 800 block, burglary, Oct. 19, 11:50 a.m.
Staunton Avenue 4600 block, burglary, Oct. 19, 2:50 p.m.
MacCorkle Avenue 4400 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 19, 4 p.m.

West District
Summit Drive 1200 block, burglary, Oct. 13, 11 a.m.
Upper Vine Street 1200 block, burglary, Oct. 13, 12 p.m.
Davis Circle 1700 block, burglary, Oct. 13, 1:55 p.m.
Washington Street 1700 block, shoplifting, Oct. 13, 1:59 p.m.
Washington Street 800 block, malicious assault/wounding, Oct. 14, 1:40 p.m.
Branch Street 500 block, grand larceny auto, Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m.
Iris Drive 1900 block, burglary, Oct. 14, 11 a.m.
Washington Street 400 block, breaking and entering auto, Oct. 14, 2 p.m.
Washington Street 400 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 5:38 p.m.
4th Avenue 1700 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 5:40 p.m.
Iris Drive 1900 block, burglary, Oct. 14, 8 p.m.
6th Street 1600 block, wanton endangerment, Oct. 14, 9:43 p.m.
Delaware Avenue 500 block, shoplifting, Oct. 14, 10 p.m.
1st Avenue 900 block, petit larceny, Oct. 15, 12:35 p.m.
Washington Street 1700 block, shoplifting, Oct. 15, 1 p.m.
Elm Street 400 block, petit larceny, Oct. 15, 2:58 p.m.
Washington Street 400 block, shoplifting, Oct. 15, 3 p.m.
Delaware Avenue 500 block, robbery, Oct. 16, 12:40 p.m.
Tennessee Avenue 600 block, grand larceny, Oct. 17, 9:02 a.m.
Russell Street 600 block, burglary, Oct. 17, 6 p.m.
2nd Avenue 1500 block, domestic battery, Oct. 19, 8 a.m.
Bigley Avenue 700 block, failure to pay for gasoline, Oct. 19, 6:28 p.m. 

Michael Jones, 53, of Charleston, was walking along Chandler Drive with another man at about 12:20 p.m. Sunday when the two were approached by a young white man asking for money, according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department.

Jones told the man to "Get a job and get your own money," Hodges said.

Instead, the man pulled out a knife and ordered Jones to empty his pockets. The man took an undisclosed amount of cash and ran off into the woods, Hodges said.

Lawrence Pierce

Lt. Steve Cooper, chief detective for the Charleston Police Department, talks to the media on Monday about Friday's fatal shooting.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The St. Albans police officer who was hit by a car during a fatal shooting last week is out of the hospital and could be cleared to return to work later this week.

The injured officer -- Brandon Tagayun -- was one of several officers with the Metro Drug Unit involved in a drug bust Friday on Charleston's West Side.

Steiney Richards, 38, of Detroit, died after being shot while trying to flee from police in a tan-colored sedan.

Multiple shots were fired around 5:30 p.m., some apparently in an alley off of the 400 block of Maryland Avenue between Wyoming and Roane streets. There was blood on the front steps of an apartment building across the street.

Sgt. Eric Hodges with the Charleston Police Department Criminal Investigation Division said two men had been shot in the alley that runs west from the 400 block of Maryland Avenue.

The 15-year-old male victim was in critical condition at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital as of 11 p.m. Monday night.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Charleston Police Department will conduct a DUI checkpoint Friday from 6 p.m. to around midnight in the 1900 block of Washington Street West.

An employee from the Holiday Inn found the remains of Robert Lee Hissom, at about 7 p.m., according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department. Hodges said Hissom was a homeless man who had been staying in Charleston.

There was frost on the body when it was found. Hodges said police believe Hissom died of exposure and had apparently been dead for several days before he was found.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police say a fatal shooting last week in a West Side apartment was apparently accidental.

Authorities were called to an apartment at 824 Central Ave. at about 10 a.m. Dec. 2 after receiving reports of a man bleeding from the chest. They found Michael Vincent Rodgers, 19, of Mobile, Ala., dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said autopsy results and evidence at the scene suggest that Rodgers accidentally shot himself. Rodgers had been staying at the apartment, which was rented to a relative.

The body of Michael Vincent Rogers, 19, of Mobile, Ala., was found in an apartment at 824 Central Ave. at about 9:50 a.m., according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department.

Authorities were sent to the apartment after calls to the Metro 911 center about a person bleeding from the chest.

Hodges said Rogers had been shot in the left front of his torso.  The investigation is continuing.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are trying to unravel the circumstances of a Wednesday morning shooting on the city's West Side.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said a shooting was reported at 1529 Red Oak St. at about 4:40 a.m.

John Stanley Ford, 44, who lives at the house, told police he was shot from the street, Hodges said.

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Charleston Cpl. K.O. Peoples leads Richard Dale Johnson to Kanawha County Magistrate Court on Tuesday afternoon. Johnson is charged with felony animal cruelty after he allegedly drove onto his neighbor's property and intentionally struck their dog.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man has been charged with felony animal cruelty after he allegedly drove onto his neighbor's property and intentionally hit her dog, which later was euthanized.

On Monday, Samantha Peyton let her dachshund, Oscar, out of her home on 12th Street in Charleston to relieve himself when her neighbor, Richard Dale Johnson, 58, drove down the street in his 2009 Chevrolet Silverado, and intentionally struck her dog on her property, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Peyton said her dog had not been out in the street and that she allegedly watched Johnson pull onto her property and hit Oscar. She told officers she heard her dog squeal and found him "lying lifeless in her driveway," according to the complaint.

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Charleston Fire Department Fire Inspector Wes Smith checks for the cause of the fire in a garage apartment behind Glen Street Tuesday morning.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston firefighters are trying to determine the cause of a fire that sent a man to the hospital Tuesday on the city's West Side. The fire, at 210 1/2 Glen St., started at about 7:45 a.m., according to Metro 911 dispatchers.

Flames were coming out of the house when firefighters arrived. Wes Smith, an inspector with the Charleston Fire Department's Station No. 2 on the West Side, said Ryan Athey, who was renting the house, was injured in the fire. Athey was taken to CAMC General Hospital, then transferred to Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington. His condition was unavailable Tuesday afternoon.

Firefighters are waiting to talk to Athey to try to figure out what caused the fire. Smith said the house was extensively damaged by heat inside, but remains structurally sound and it should be possible to remodel the interior.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A St. Albans man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly waving a rifle at firefighters.

Firefighters from the West Side Volunteer Fire Department called deputies at about 7:30 p.m. after a drunk man holding a rifle allegedly confronted them when they tried to respond to a fire in the 200 block of Sargent Street, according to Lt. Bryan Stover of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies allegedly discovered an intoxicated Thomas Michael Yoder, 37, in the back yard with a .22 caliber rifle in his hands, Stover said. After ignoring orders from deputies to put the weapon down, Yoder was shot with a Taser gun and subdued, Stover said.

Charleston police have made an arrest in the case of a man who was shot in the chest in the city's East End on Monday.

Police arrested a 17-year-old juvenile and charged him with malicious wounding for the shooting of Michael O. Smith, according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department.

Smith, 52, was shot once in the chest with a small-caliber handgun at about 7:30 p.m. at 914 Chilton Street, Hodges said. Smith was taken to CAMC General Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Chip Ellis

Charleston police investigate the scene of a shooting on the city's East End late Monday.

 A  man was shot in the chest on Charleston's East End Monday night.

According to Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatchers, a woman called in shortly after 7:30 p.m. and said that her husband had been shot in the chest in the 900 block of Chilton Street.

The victim, whose identity and age have not yet been released, told medics he did not know who shot him, according to the dispatcher.

Police responded to the Rite-Aid on Washington Street West about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when someone called and said there was a suspicious man in the liquor aisle, said Charleston Police Sgt. Eric Hodges.

Eligah Shyquan Payton, 19 of Charleston, was in the bathroom of the store and had been in the liquor aisle and acting agitated, Hodges said. When Payton came out of the restroom, police stopped him as he tried to leave the store.

When he was patted down, police found a .25-caliber pistol on him, Hodges said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Raleigh County man was arrested Monday and charged with having a concealed weapon on Charleston's West Side.

Officers on a routine foot patrol came up to a car at Hunt Avenue and Orchard Street at about 11:15 p.m. Monday because of loud music coming from the vehicle, according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department.

Hodges said police gave a warning to the driver, Earl Nathaniel Croner, 24, of Beckley, telling him he was in violation of the city's noise ordinance. It was then that police noticed an empty pistol holster on Croner's belt.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for two men who allegedly raped a woman on the city's East End on Friday.

According to Lt. Kim West of the Charleston Police Department, the woman told police she had just gotten off a bus at about 10:30 a.m. when she was raped at knifepoint by two men in an alley off the 200 block of Ruffner Avenue.

Police are looking for two black men who left in a large blue car with tinted windows, West said.

State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous said Sgt. L.G. O'Bryan of the South Charleston detachment saw a silver 2002 Buick SUV with Delaware license plates speeding north on Corridor G just past the Davis Creek exit at about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday and took up chase. Baylous said O'Bryan abandoned the chase after a short while because the driver was driving recklessly and O'Bryan feared for the safety of other drivers.

The driver of the SUV then turned onto Lucado Road. The vehicle crashed a short time later on Huber and Rosewood roads, apparently while trying to negotiate the narrow, twisting streets. A Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said the vehicle ended up on its side.

Baylous said O'Bryan responded to the accident a short time later and found the same vehicle he had been chasing. Witnesses said a black man and a black woman were seen running away from the vehicle.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  

Police charged a Charleston man with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday after he fought with a man who later died in the hospital.

On Monday, David Booker, 24, of Charleston, got into a fight with Omar Lorenzo Thompson, 27, of Beckley, at 682 South Park Road, according to a criminal complaint on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A malicious wounding investigation turned to homicide after the victim of a beating died Tuesday in Charleston.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said a fight about 4:30 p.m. Monday led to Omar Lorenzo Thompson, 27, of Beckley, being hit on the head at 682 South Park Road. Thompson was taken to CAMC General Hospital, where he died at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Hodges said police were initially investigating the incident as a malicious wounding, but are now conducting a homicide investigation. Police are not yet releasing the names of any possible suspects, but expect to release more information.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man was arrested early today and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.

Charleston Police Sgt. Eric Hodges said officers were conducting a foot patrol in the Hunt Avenue area of the city's West Side at about 3:45 a.m. when they spotted a suspicious subject in an alley. Hodges said Monyea R. Gravely, 20, began walking toward officers.

Hodges said Gravely's speech was slurred, and officers saw what looked like the butt of a gun above his right pants pocket.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston Police arrested a teenager on Wednesday in connection with a robbery on the West Side.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said Dallas McGhee, 28, of St. Albans, told police he was walking to a Wendy's restaurant in the 600 block of Washington Street West at about 8 p.m. when he was jumped from behind and thrown to the ground.

McGhee told police a black male rifled through his pockets, grabbed his wallet and took off up Edgewood Drive, Hodges said. Hodges said police were nearby, and found the suspect a short time later.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A 2-year-old boy who was rescued from an intentionally set fire Sunday morning on Charleston's East End dies early Tuesday, and police are treating his death as a homicide.

Charleston Fire Chief Randy Stanley said the boy died early Tuesday from his injuries. Stanley said a cause of death has not been released.

Sgt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department, said that since the boy has died, the police would conduct a murder investigation in connection to the blaze.

Update: Fire chief says 2-year-old boy has died 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police have opened an investigation into a fire believed to have been intentionally set on the porch of a three-unit apartment building on Charleston's East End Sunday morning.

Four children -- ages 3, 2, 1 and 3 months -- and an adult male were hurt and taken to the hospital.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man they believe is involved in a stabbing that left one man dead over the weekend.

Charleston Police have issued an arrest warrant for first-degree murder for Brian Keith Woodson, aka "Woody", 50, of Charleston, said Sgt. Eric Hodges with the Criminal Investigation Division.

Police say Samuel Edward Spain, 30, followed Tara Canterbury and her 2-year-old daughter from Wendy's on Washington Street East to a nearby Exxon station on Sunday, according to a criminal complaint on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court. Once inside, Spain allegedly kept following the mother and daughter around the store.

Canterbury told police she picked the girl up because Spain wouldn't stop staring at the girl. When Canterbury asked what Spain was doing, he allegedly began to reach for the 2-year-old.

The girl's father, Donald Smith, then came up and asked Spain "what his problem was," according to the complaint. Spain allegedly replied that the little girl was his sister's child.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police have made arrests in two unrelated weekend burglaries.

According to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department, a witness saw two men kick in a side door at a home at 6552 MacCorkle Ave. just before 9 a.m. on July 9. The men made off with a laptop computer and some jewelry before police arrived, but Hodges said they were found a short time later near the BP station in the 6300 block of MacCorkle Ave.

Rusty Jon Martin, 30, of Cross Lanes, and Thomas Cecil Means, 25, of Poca, were arrested and charged with burglary. The men were in the South Central Regional Jail Monday morning in lieu of $50,000 bond each.

Timothy Burdette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police charged a Charleston man with murder late Tuesday after he allegedly punched his girlfriend in the stomach so hard that it killed her unborn baby.

According to a criminal complaint on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court, Timothy Paul Burdette, 25, of Piccadilly Street in Charleston, had been smoking crack cocaine on June 20 and asked his girlfriend for $10 to buy more. When the woman refused, the two got into a scuffle and Burdette kept trying to grab her purse.

When she would not give up the purse, Burdette allegedly punched her in the stomach. Burdette fled when the woman threatened to call police, the criminal complaint says.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man is dead after getting pinned by his truck after it went over a hill on the city's West Side.

William Martin, 67, of Chandler Drive, was turning right onto White Oak Road from Summit Drive shortly after 10 p.m. Monday night when his front left tire slipped off the road, said Sgt. Shawn Williams with the Charleston Police Department Traffic Division.

Williams said the hairpin curve is the site of quite a few accidents. "It's a very nearly impossible turn, but you can make it if you maneuver right," Williams said.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said two handguns were taken from the store in Southridge Centre between 8:45 and 9 p.m. Monday. Police recovered surveillance photographs of two men suspected of taking the weapons.

Anyone who recognizes the men or has information about the thefts is asked to call Charleston detectives at 304-348-6480.

James Brandon Burdette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Sunday afternoon joy ride by an intoxicated man in a stolen Charleston Police vehicle ended with a crash near police headquarters.

Charleston officers were in the area of Brawley Walkway and Summers Street responding to a disturbance near the Transit Mall on Sunday when James Brandon Burdette, 25, of Charleston, climbed into a 2008 Dodge Durango Police SUV, car No. 219, and took off, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Burdette backed the vehicle down Brawley Walkway and struck a tree before turning onto Summers Street and heading toward Virginia Street, according to the complaint.

Chris Dorst

William Allen Anderson II was arrested at the Madison Street house on the right early Monday morning. Police say he walked onto the porch while concealing a shotgun and a handgun. More weapons and two homemade bombs were found in his car, police said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Residents of Madison Street on Charleston's West Side thought it was funny to see a man walking down the street in a full-length coat in the overnight heat.

Until they saw the shotgun hanging down beneath the hem of the coat.

William Allen Anderson II, 45, of Sissonville, had a shotgun hanging from his right shoulder in a sling and a handgun tucked into his pants when he was arrested following a disturbance call, according to a criminal complaint on file in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A man was stabbed in a Charleston bar early today.

James Douglas Brown, 37, of Park Drive in Dunbar is charged with malicious wounding in the attack at the Eight Below Bar at 8 Capitol St.

According to Kanawha Magistrate Court records, Brown is charged with stabbing Adam Foster of Charleston in the neck and chest with a knife.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston Police have arrested two suspects they believe are part of a group of people that has been attacking and robbing people downtown.

"A group of people who are hanging out in the transit mall have taken it upon themselves to start robbing people," said Sgt. Steve Cooper, chief detective for the Charleston Police Department.

But Cooper said the men do not appear to be members of an organized gang. "It is a group of individuals," Cooper said. "We are not saying it's gang-related."

Dominic Lamont Cesar, 22, robbed Chin's restaurant at 4114 MacCorkle Ave. just before noon, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court by Charleston Police officer J.D. Koerber.

Cesar placed a to-go order at the restaurant, according to the complaint. When the restaurant's owner, Andrew Chin, asked for payment, Cesar began digging in his pockets, then pulled out a black semi-automatic handgun, pointed it by Chin and demanded that he open the cash register and hand over the money inside.

Cesar was charged with first-degree robbery and was taken to South Central Regional Jail. Magistrate Paris Workman set his bond at $100,000 cash only.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Tuesday afternoon police chase that started on Interstate 77 ended in a crash near the Lowe's in Kanawha City.

A Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said a man driving a Blazer was weaving in and out of traffic on I-77 southbound just after 3 p.m. Tuesday. Charleston Police tried to keep pace with the driver, who got off at the MacCorkle Avenue exit in Kanawha City.

Minutes later, the driver of the Blazer ran a red light going westbound and hit another vehicle in the 5700 block of MacCorkle Avenue, according to the dispatcher.

Police suspect this man, his image captured by bank surveillance cameras, of robbing the Chase Bank in Kanawha City.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for a man who robbed the Chase Bank branch at the former Kanawha Mall in Kanawha City on Friday morning.

Police said a white middle-age male told a bank teller that he had a gun and passed a note demanding money at about 9:40 a.m.

The man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police plan a sobriety checkpoint from 4 p.m. to midnight Wednesday in the 1500 block of Kanawha Boulevard East.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for a man believed to be involved in a shooting on the East End on Monday.

Nicholas Neophytou, 21, of Charleston, told police he was in the 1600 block of McClung Street about 8:25 p.m. Monday when he was approached by two men demanding money. Although he told officers he handed over cash, he said the men chased him, and one of the men fired a gun at Neophytou. A bullet grazed his head.

Police identified a suspect in the shooting as Matthew Dewayne Turner, 26, of Charleston, according to Sgt. Autumn Davis of the Charleston Police Department. He is described as a black male, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 180 pounds with hair possibly in braids.

Matthew Dewayne Turner

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for a man believed to be involved in a shooting on the East End on Monday.

Nicholas Neophytou, 21, of Charleston, told police he was in the 1600 block of McClung Street about 8:25 p.m. Monday when he was approached by two men demanding money. Although he told officers he handed over cash, he said the men chased him, and one of the men fired a gun at Neophytou. A bullet grazed his head.

Police identified a suspect in the shooting as Matthew Dewayne Turner, 26, of Charleston, according to Sgt. Autumn Davis of the Charleston Police Department. He is described as a black male, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 180 pounds with hair possibly in braids.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for a man who robbed a Shoney's restaurant in Kanawha City on Tuesday.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said the man walked into the restaurant on MacCorkle Avenue just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, pulled a knife and demanded money from the cashier. He fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Hodges said the suspect's description is similar to that of a man who pulled a knife and robbed a Kanawha City 7-Eleven early Monday.

Cortney S. Shelton, 21, of Buffalo, and his girlfriend, Samantha E. Wine, left Putnam County early Thursday afternoon heading toward Cross Lanes, according to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. Shelton was driving Wine's Jeep when the couple started arguing.

Shelton allegedly started to drive erratically and telling Wine that he was going to kill himself. Shelton allegedly continued with this behavior through Putnam County into the Sissonville area of Kanawha County, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For the second time in a month, a Charleston man has been charged with malicious wounding after allegedly stabbing a woman in the hallway of his East End apartment building.

According to a complaint on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court, James Wesley Green, 54, of 1546 Kanawha Blvd. E., stabbed 37-year-old Angela Lynette Fowler in the chest at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday following an argument. Green was arrested a short time later and charged with malicious wounding.

Green also was charged with malicious wounding and domestic battery on Nov. 8 for allegedly assaulting the same woman. In that attack, Green cut Fowler on the ear with a box cutter, according to Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said the woman was waiting for a ride outside J.C. Penney's at about 7:15 p.m. when two men knocked her down and stole her purse. Police are not releasing the victim's name out of concern for her safety.

Hodges said the two men then fled into the mall. He said the victim tried to follow them, but lost them in the crowd.

Police are looking for two black males. One was last seen wearing a green sweatshirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap. The other was wearing a black jacket with a white logo on the back.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A man was shot Wednesday morning while working on the roof of a West Side department store.

Authorities initially thought that Robbie Stewart, 36, of South Charleston, accidentally stepped on a handgun while working on the roof of Young's Department Store, at 1613 Washington St., W.,  just before 10 a.m. The gun went off, hitting Stewart in the chest.

However, Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said Stewart later told officers that he was working on the roof installing a camera when his hand landed on a hidden gun. Hodges said the .25 caliber Titan semi-automatic pistol somehow discharged.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A bar fight in South Charleston sent one man to the hospital and another man to jail early Friday.

Jay Hunter got into an argument with 33-year-old Joseph Wade Igo at the Overtime Lounge at 300 Seventh Ave. about 3 a.m., said a spokesman for the South Charleston Police Department. During the fight, Hunter was stabbed about six times.

Hunter was hospitalized. Igo was charged with malicious wounding.

David Wayne Elswick

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A Charleston man was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old.

David Wayne Elswick, 26, of 1206 Sixth St. W., was charged with first-degree sexual assault after allegedly abusing the girl, who was left in his care.

According to a criminal complaint on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court, the girl's mother dropped her off at Elswick's home on Oct. 11. Elswick was supposed to watch the girl for the day.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man is being accused of putting beer into an infant's bottle while baby-sitting the child.

James Michael Williams is charged with felony child neglect creating the risk of injury.

A criminal complaint accuses Williams of putting Natural Ice Light beer into the 11-month-old's bottle on Friday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man was arrested Friday for throwing a kitten about 60 feet, killing it, a criminal complaint alleges.

Robert Stephenson, 25, was charged with the misdemeanor offense of animal cruelty after he tossed the kitten between himself and several friends on Aug. 2, then threw the kitten from the edge of his yard, according to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

The incident allegedly happened while Stephenson was drinking in front of his Red Oak Street apartment, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A North Carolina man died in a car accident Thursday night after his vehicle rolled over in Charleston.

William Howard Lee, 52, of Maiden, N.C., was driving along Greenbrier Street when he ran off the roadway and struck a utility pole and bridge near the Go-Mart by Coonskin Park, according to Sgt. Shawn Williams with the Charleston Police Department.

Lee's vehicle rolled over and landed on its top in a creek at about 11:30 p.m., he said.