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UPDATE: Man Charged with Murder After Shooting in Lewis County
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 ; 05:02 AM | View Comments | Post Comment
Updated Saturday, July 18, 2009; 07:11 PM


Elvis King Jr.
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Police say Jeremy Debarr was shot and killed.

LEWIS COUNTY  -- West Virginia State Police in Lewis County are investigating a murder.

Around 6:00 p.m., Thursday, authorities were alerted to a 35-year-old male victim of a gunshot wound, resulting from an altercation near Brooks Body Shop.

Troopers then arrested Elvis Eugene King Jr. of Weston and charged him with first degree murder and three counts of wanton endangerment.

The victim, Jeremy Debarr, 36, was taken to Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Ruby Memorial Hospital, where he died.

The altercation spilled from a home into the back of a parked pickup truck.

That is when the shooting took place, troopers said.

King Jr. is being held in the Central Regional Jail.

The Lewis County Sheriff's Department and the Weston Police Department assisted the state police at the scene.

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Family Member of Jeremy
7/21/09 at 9:36 PM		 Report Abuse
I attended Jeremy's memorial service this evening: Such a horrible feeling to some way let this all sink in as true..... Our hearts are really hurting, How will we ever heal from this? Time will never erase the fact that such a wonderful careing persons life was just snatched from us.......GOD please be with his mother and "Granny"..Some really tuff times are yet to be faced..We long for the trial of this horrible person that pulled that triger.......
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Justice said it best
7/19/09 at 12:12 AM		 Report Abuse
i personally knew the victim & I believe what Justice said it true. There is no cause to take another person's life. period!! I feel really bad for both parties' families. However, Jeremy didn't deserve to die in his thirties. Elvis took Jeremy's freedom to live his life & now Elvis should have to pay the price for his actions with his freedom as well. Regardless of his mental state, Elvis made a decision that he should have to live with for the rest of his life,
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Random D-Bag
7/18/09 at 10:52 PM		 Report Abuse
The King boy has serious mental problem, and that was from the horses mouth. More than likely he was off his med's. On his med's he is an alright fella. Very sad that this has happened.
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justice
7/18/09 at 1:59 PM		 Report Abuse
right or wrong, the whole situation is very sad. How someone could so easily take another persons life is something I will never understand. We can only hope that for the sake of the victims family that justice is served.
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Confused is Wrong!
7/18/09 at 12:36 PM		 Report Abuse
So confused has the story all twisted. The ex should have called the police because the suspect is mentally disabled. Besides that the news story says nothing about children, nothing about what the altercation was about so how do you know who is innocent? The police have not said why they were arguing. Nothing should end in death nobody should try to play god but get your story strait at least.
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Confused????
7/17/09 at 10:38 PM		 Report Abuse
Why would the ex-girlfriend not have called the police earlier and saved a poor man's life if this conflict had been going on all day. He threatened her and all the children in the house, saying he would burn it down. Hello, do something about it. She is there to protect her family and she let it continue all day long until an innconent life was taken because of this stupidity. She will have to live with this for the rest of her life.
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