4 Teens Shot to Death in West Virginia
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Four teenagers were shot to death outside a home over the weekend, and a girl who lives next door told her mother she heard gunfire and a girl pleading for her life.
The motive for the shootings early Sunday was unknown, police said. A police statement said nothing about whether a weapon was found or the relationship of the victims, and officials did not return a call Monday seeking further detail.
The victims were identified as Dante Ward, 19, who lived at the home; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; and Megan Poston, 16, of Barboursville.
Dillon and Poston were dates to the Huntington High School prom Saturday night, but it was unknown if they made it there. Dillon was a junior at the school, while Poston attend another high school.
The couple was supposed to be at a lock-in at the school after the dance, but their names were not on the registration sheet, Cabell County schools Superintendent William Smith said.
Christy Thomas, a neighbor of Ward's, said her 12-year-old daughter awoke early Sunday to the sound of gunshots and screaming, and saw two bodies when she looked out her bedroom window.
"She said the gunshots sounded like cannons going off," said Thomas, who was at work at the time. "She said she heard a girl say, 'Please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me.'"
Three of the teens were dead when police arrived and the fourth died a short time later at Cabell-Huntington Hospital, police said.
Garry Dillon, who called police after his son didn't come home when the lock-in ended at 5 a.m. Sunday, 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," Dillon said.
An emotional crowd of about 100 people gathered at the site of the shooting Sunday. One woman, apparently the mother of one of the victims, broke through police tape to get to her child.
"I don't know how you console a person like that, that's lost a young child," police Capt. Steve Hall told WOWK-TV. "I don't know."
Thomas said Ward moved into the house next to her about two months ago. Though she didn't know him well, Ward was always social and friendly, Thomas said.
Ward was a 2003 Huntington High School graduate, while Clark went to school in South Point, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Huntington. George York, principal of South Point High School, called Clark "a wonderful guy" and said he was to have graduated next Sunday.
The motive for the shootings early Sunday was unknown, police said. A police statement said nothing about whether a weapon was found or the relationship of the victims, and officials did not return a call Monday seeking further detail.
The victims were identified as Dante Ward, 19, who lived at the home; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; and Megan Poston, 16, of Barboursville.
Dillon and Poston were dates to the Huntington High School prom Saturday night, but it was unknown if they made it there. Dillon was a junior at the school, while Poston attend another high school.
The couple was supposed to be at a lock-in at the school after the dance, but their names were not on the registration sheet, Cabell County schools Superintendent William Smith said.
Christy Thomas, a neighbor of Ward's, said her 12-year-old daughter awoke early Sunday to the sound of gunshots and screaming, and saw two bodies when she looked out her bedroom window.
"She said the gunshots sounded like cannons going off," said Thomas, who was at work at the time. "She said she heard a girl say, 'Please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me.'"
Three of the teens were dead when police arrived and the fourth died a short time later at Cabell-Huntington Hospital, police said.
Garry Dillon, who called police after his son didn't come home when the lock-in ended at 5 a.m. Sunday, 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," Dillon said.
An emotional crowd of about 100 people gathered at the site of the shooting Sunday. One woman, apparently the mother of one of the victims, broke through police tape to get to her child.
"I don't know how you console a person like that, that's lost a young child," police Capt. Steve Hall told WOWK-TV. "I don't know."
Thomas said Ward moved into the house next to her about two months ago. Though she didn't know him well, Ward was always social and friendly, Thomas said.
Ward was a 2003 Huntington High School graduate, while Clark went to school in South Point, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Huntington. George York, principal of South Point High School, called Clark "a wonderful guy" and said he was to have graduated next Sunday.
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