ETHEL, W.Va. — An Ohio man is in custody after being charged with shooting and killing a Logan County man.
State police have charged Darius Stanton, 23, of Columbus, Ohio with first degree murder.
Troopers allege Stanton shot Walter Elmore, 42, of Logan, in the stomach at a residence in the Ethel area of Logan County early Sunday morning.
First responders discovered Elmore had been shot when they arrived on scene of a car crash on state Route 17 at Ethel at shortly after 3 a.m. Elmore was driving.
Troopers later arrested Stanton at a traffic stop on Pond Fork Road in Boone County.
Elmore died at Logan Regional Medical Center.
Stanton is being held without bail in the Southwestern Regional Jail.