Posted on 09/03/2013 10:09:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Two men have been charged with the murder of a Jesuit college student who was beaten to death after he and a friend were 'jumped from behind' as they walked back to campus from a bar on Labor Day weekend.
Craig Tyler Peacock, 22, of Clewiston, Florida, and Jarrett Mathis Chandler, 24, of Winnfield, Louisiana, were both charged with the murder of Kevin M. Figaniak.
The men were found in a camp for oil and gas workers and were arrested overnight.
They were arraigned and placed in the Northern Correctional Facility in Moundsville, West Virginia on $1 million cash bail each.
Kevin, 21, suffered severe head trauma in the attack near Wheeling Jesuit University at 1.45am on Saturday morning.
He died the next day at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Kevin's friend - who was also attacked - told police the 21-year-old exchanged 'unpleasantries' with one or two of the men in the group before they attacked, Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger told The Intelligencer/Wheeling News Register.
The surviving victim, who has not been named, described the attackers as three or four white men in their mid-20s. Two of them had brown hair and were wearing jeans. Another wore a hat.
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Just like Steubenville.
They’d set up shop in Steubenville and when the heat was on jump across the river to West Virginia. Then when the WV cops started cracking down they’d reverse and repeat the process.
Yep. I saw my share, having grown up there.
“Amazing - the race of the attackers can be reported.”
That’s because they were white. Had they been black it would not have been reported
You speak as if you know for a fact that Figaniak started it.
I see zero evidence of that.
There is not much evidence of anything at all available to us right now. That is the point. We were speculating on how these things get started in bars.
Reported because the attackers are white.
Two more Trayvons off the street.
thugs and punks. bjg bad brave boys/s
Yes, I finally left there for good in ‘75 after my first divorce. I know the street they were walking on well as I suspect they were probably coming back from The Alpha and were going toward the footbridge across the creek. That used to be solidly middle class. I guess not any more.
It is only murder if the intent was to kill. Victim isn't any less dead, though.
I’m in Steubenville. Small world.
My great-grandfather emigrated from Paris and settled in Wheeling for reasons we are all still trying to figure out.
And for which we are eternally grateful.
And I knew an old guy at the plant I used to work in who was convicted of same. Instead of a curb tho, it was the floor..........
“began talking some smack and got more than he bargained for”
So that’s an excuse for murder?
“Peacock and Chandler both agreed to give videotaped statements in which they acknowledged there had been a verbal altercation on Saturday morning at a bar.
They told police they followed Kevin and his friend afterwards to where the fight began.”
I’m with you Chainmail, doesn’t matter what was said in the bar, these two deliberately went out to have a confrontation after the victims after they left. More like morons thinking with their balls instead of their brains
This doesn’t sound like a confrontation. It was more like an ambush.
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