Former MC professor killed in prison

1-23-17 West Virginia:

Eugene Robert Anderson, 66, a former Marietta College professor who received more than 100 years in prison for child pornography charges in Marietta and Parkersburg, was killed in prison Sunday.

According to the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Anderson was killed Sunday evening after an apparent assault by one or more fellow inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex.

Anderson was fatally injured around 6 p.m. in an outdoor recreation area. The facility was immediately placed on lockdown.

A makeshift weapon has been recovered. No one has been charged in the incident. The West Virginia State Police are investigating.

Anderson was serving sentences imposed in both Kanawha and Wood counties for multiple sexual offenses involving minors. His minimum discharge date in West Virginia was in 2148. ..Source.. by staff reports

Police in Illinois, Nevada look at attacker in West Virginia self-defense killing

7-28-15 West Virginia:

"He pulled a gun on me! He was going to kill me!"

Those are the chilling words caught in the background of a 911 call placed earlier this month after a woman faced off with an attacker who tried to rape her, pointing a 9 mm gun to her chest.

The victim, who is being called "Heather" by investigators, fought back so hard, police in Charleston, West Virginia said, that her attacker -- who police now believe may be linked to other crimes -- lost control of his gun.

Heather grabbed the weapon and blindly fired it, killing 45-year-old Neal Falls in self-defense, police said.

Heather, who met Falls after connecting via the escort section of backpage.com, was not charged in the incident.

Two dead after convicted sex offender goes on rampage in Mingo County

10-11-2012 West Virginia:

Police in Mingo County shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he threatened them with a claw hammer, which he had previously used to attack his roommate before running over him with a stolen pickup.

The roommate also was dead at the scene.

State Trooper D.M. Williamson said roommates Phillip Gilman, 43, and Alfred Curry, 73, got into a fight around 9 p.m. at their Elk Creek house, near Delbarton.

Williamson said he had no idea why Curry and Gilman were fighting. Neighbors told police Gilman, a registered sex offender convicted of rape in 2005, "had been acting crazy all day." They said he walked up and down the road all day, swinging a hammer and looking at the sky.

Gilman attacked Curry with that hammer Wednesday night. The older man got out of their home but collapsed outside. A passing motorist found him lying in the middle of the road.

Williamson said the woman saw Curry lying in the road, found out who he was and called his half-brother, Mingo County Commissioner Dave Baisden.

Baisden arrived a short time later in his county-owned Ford F250 pickup. When he jumped out of the truck to tend to his brother, Gilman got in the driver's seat and took off, running over Curry as he speeded down the road.