3 Dead, 1 in custody in W.Va. shooting

An 83-year-old man was jailed Saturday, charged with shooting three members of a family to death, authorities said. Howard Junior Curry of Fayetteville was charged with three counts of murder in the 5 a.m. shooting deaths of two women and a man at a residence outside Oak Hill, The Charleston Gazette reported. The names of the victims, who were all related, had not been released. Fayette County Sheriff Steve Kessler said officers who arrived at the home found one man, 82, with multiple gunshot wounds lying on front porch. They made contact with a man armed with a handgun who was inside the residence and he was soon taken into custody. Inside, officers found the bodies of two women, ages 57 and 47, who also had been shot multiple times. The sheriff's department said the dead man and the 57-year-old woman lived outside the immediate area. Kessler said all three were related. "This crime was most probably domestic-related, but we cannot speculate as to a possible motive at this time," Kessler said in a release. A neighbor, Alfred Toney, told WSAZ-TV, Huntington-Charleston, it was "devastating" to learn of the triple shooting. "I don't know, just, you didn't believe that. Hard to believe," he said. "I never do see the people that much. They're just quiet like people. Stay to themselves."