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<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Police searching for a sniper suspect in West Virginia were called to investigate another report of gunfire outside a convenience store, but said there was no evidence to confirm a shooting took place.</p> <p>Charleston Police Chief Jerry Pauley said Thursday that police were investigating the report late Wednesday from Dunbar, about 5 miles from Charleston. But he said police had found no physical evidence of a shooting.</p>

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Reuters) - Authorities pursuing a possible serial sniper in three West Virginia convenience store murders on Thursday investigated a report of shots being fired at a fourth location, police said. A 16-year-old girl told investigators she heard a bullet whiz past her head at a Go Mart gas station convenience store near Charleston at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday. She said the shot may have come from a maroon pickup truck. There were no injuries and police could not confirm that a shot had actually been fired. Soon after that report, a Kanawha County sheriff's deputy saw a pickup...

<p>CHARLESTON, West Virginia (CNN) --Police are investigating a shooting at a convenience store near Charleston late Wednesday that bore a striking resemblance to three recent fatal attacks in the area over the past 11 days.</p> <p>No one was reported injured in the latest shooting.</p>

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ballistic tests show a .22-caliber rifle was used in last week's separate sniper-style slayings of two people outside of rural convenience stores, police said. Tests were incomplete on the third victim. Kanawha County Chief Deputy Phil Morris said it also appears that the two shootings were drug related. Ballistics tests showed Jeanie Patton, 31, and Okey Meadows Jr., 26, were killed Aug. 14 by the same weapon, Morris said during a news conference. The two Campbells Creek residents were shot from 50 yards to 75 yards away. Tests were incomplete on the bullet that killed 44-year-old Gary...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Investigators have narrowed hundreds of tips to 10 solid leads in their probe of sniper shootings that killed three people outside Charleston-area convenience stores, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators also are pursuing a possible drug link in at least two of the shootings, Kanawha County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Phil Morris said. Interviews with Campbells Creek residents uncovered public concerns about the sale and use of methamphetamines in the unincorporated area where two of the victims lived and where one of the shootings occurred. ``We would be remiss in not mentioning the possible drug connection,'' Morris told...

<p>Police in West Virginia want to talk with whoever is behind three recent sniper killings that have state residents fearing a repeat of the spree that terrorized the Washington area last fall.</p> <p>"Through the newspapers we've told ... this individual to get in contact with us. Let's talk, let's find out what the problem is," said Dave Tucker, the sheriff of Kanawha County, where the shootings occurred last week.</p>

<p>The second shooting occurred August 14 at a Speedway gas station on Charleston's south side.</p> <p>CHARLESTON, West Virginia (CNN) -- Investigators in the killings of three people at Charleston-area gas stations last week are questioning 100 people they consider suspects in those shootings, Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker said Monday.</p>

Serial sniper suspected in convenience store killings in W.Va. By JOEDY McCREARY Associated Press Writer August 15 2003 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bullets that killed three victims this week outside Kanawha County convenience stores were fired from the same caliber and class of weapon, police said Friday night, but they stopped short of saying they were fired from the same gun. "All three balls had the same characteristics," Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker said after getting ballistics results from a State Police crime lab. "But we can't say for sure it's the same gun." Police warned residents not to visit convenience...

2 gunned down Woman, man shot dead outside Campbells Creek, Cedar Grove gas stations By Paul Wilson Staff Writer Two people were killed late Thursday in separate shootings outside Kanawha County convenience stores, in what police said could be related random shootings. The two became the second and third people shot dead outside Kanawha Valley convenience stores within four days, and the third and fourth people murdered in Kanawha County on a bloody Thursday. Thursday night, a woman was gunned down while pumping gas at a Campbells Creek convenience store about 10:20 p.m., while another person was shot slightly more...

CHARLESTON, W. Va. — A man and a woman were fatally shot during two separate incidents outside Kanawha County convenience stores late Thursday, four days after another man was killed in a similar incident. Police said the deaths appeared to be random shootings. At about 10:20 p.m. Thursday, a woman was shot while pumping gas at a SuperAmerica store in Campbells Creek. The second fatal shooting happened a little more than an hour later and 10 miles away outside a Go-Mart in Cedar Grove on U.S. 60. Lt. J.S. Bailes, Kanawha County sheriff's spokesman, had few details about George Carrier...

Two people were killed late Thursday in separate shootings outside Kanawha County convenience stores, in what police said could be related random shootings. The two became the second and third people shot dead outside Kanawha Valley convenience stores within four days, and the third and fourth people murdered in Kanawha County on a bloody Thursday. Thursday night, a woman was gunned down while pumping gas at a Campbells Creek convenience store about 10:20 p.m., while another person was shot slightly more than an hour later outside a Cedar Grove store. Both were killed. “They appear to be random shootings,” said...

MSNBC reporting breaking news -- 'Sniper-style' shooting in W. VA area.