Posted on 05/24/2005 10:19:29 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Detroiter suspected of killing four W.Va. teens
5/24/2005, 2:57 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Police in Huntington, W.Va. say a Detroit resident is suspected in the shooting-deaths of four teenagers.
The teens were killed early Sunday in the front yard of the apartment house where victim Dante Ward, 19, lived. Ward may have been the intended target and the other three may have been killed to prevent them from identifying the shooter, police Capt. Steve Hall said.
Police rounded up at least 20 people from Detroit suspected of dealing drugs in Huntington. They said it appeared the shooter was from Detroit.
"At this time, I hesitate to call it drug-related, but the information we're getting is that an individual from y'all's area is responsible for the murder," Hall told the Detroit Free Press.
He declined to name a suspect.
Hall would not rule out that the shooter might already be in custody but told The Associated Press that police would continue to monitor the nearby state border "until arrests are made or until we have credible information that the individuals are gone."
In addition to Ward, the victims were Eddrick Clark, 18; Michael Dillon, 17; and Megan Poston, 16. Poston was Dillon's date to his high school prom Saturday night. Authorities said the two other victims did not attend the prom.
A neighbor said he and his daughter were awakened by gunshots and a girl pleading for her life.
"There was a burst of gunfire, and then there was a small pause, and that's when I heard the girl say, `Please don't kill me, I'm sorry,'" Michael Thomas said. "And I heard two more gunshots."
Thomas added: "You send your kids to the prom and you just hope they don't drink and drive. You'd never expect they're going to get murdered in cold blood."
Dillon's father, Garry Dillon, said he had no idea why his son and Poston were at Ward's house. "I just hope the police get the monster that did this to those babies," he said.
"Casualties of the War On Drugs."
There. Somebody was going to say it.
This is my home town and this is more murders than we usually get in a couple of years. It's very sad that this small town area has something like this happen. Most of the murders we have are domestically related.
It's finally coming here too...VERY SAD
Meth?
Crack.
We need to close the borders so Detroiters cannot enter.
Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company --Proverbs 24:1
A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead. --Proverbs 21:16
Probably not in Detroit. Detroit's known for crack. Meth (in Michigan) is more in the rural areas.
Luckily, we're known for our guns out here.
Quote: Dillon's father, Garry Dillon, said he had no idea why his son and Poston were at Ward's house.
betcha they were buying drugs for the after prom party. Lay with dogs and you will get fleas.
I don't know about murders, but my daughter and her family live in Huntington and their apartment's been robbed twice in broad daylight in the past year. They live in what you would think were very safe neighborhoods. Their next door neighbor was burglarized a month or so prior to their last break-in.
I know...it's a lot worse than it used to be and these murders just highlight it. I live in a middle class neighborhood with lots of neighbors around and at home most of the time. We have very few break ins or anything like that in this neighborhood. BUT...I'm sure it's coming here too. It's just sad the way the whole country is going and the crime is now hitting small town America with more vengence.
I live in a rural area of western Pa. and in the last few years we have had two so-called "drug related" murders committed by people from Philly.
Funny, at one time folks from West Virginia (and Kentucky and Tennessee) used to head to Detroit.
Is that Whitney Houston?
Ypsilanti is more like Ann Arbor now. Taylor's still a working class auto based "Downriver" town.
Whitney Houston?
That's her, baby!
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