Mingo Sheriff Shot To Death; Suspect Shot While Trying To Get Away

[TeamPooka]

Source: WCHS ABC Channel 8

Reported by: Jeff Morris
Web Producer: Jeff Morris
Reported: Apr. 3, 2013 12:49 PM EDT
Updated: Apr. 3, 2013 1:39 PM EDT

Williamson, Mingo County , West Virginia

The suspect in the fatal shooting of Mingo Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot while trying to get away.

The suspect's condition was unavailable. Crum was shot on Wednesday in downtown Williamson.

Read more: http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/130403_15097.shtml

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edit: A lot of good guys with guns are getting killed by bad guys with guns.

[AAO]

1. Yeah, what's up with that, NRA?

[Hekate]

2. The way it's written makes it sound like it could be another political assassination...

... as opposed to a job-hazard murder.

The Williamson Daily News reports the suspect accused of killing Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum approached his sport utility vehicle and shot him point-blank.

I don't know about West Virginia, but in our county The Sheriff is elected.

Damn. Damn, and double damn.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Scuttlebutt from friends in that region

Says that this guy has been cracking down on drug operations in his area -- mainly oxy and meth. A quick Google found this wrapup of doings:

http://www.wsaz.com/news/wvnews/headlines/52-Indicted-on-Drug-Charges-in-Mingo-County-189358121.html

[ReRe]

4. Hey you young whipper-snappers...

... this is what the Wild Wild West was like. Yee-Hawwwwwwwww!

"I shot the law, and the law won. I shot the law and the law won."

Pitiful. What is happening to this GD country? I'm going to have to get off this computer and take a break. I've never seen such bad news in one single day as this...

[Moostache]

5. WTF good is a Dept. of Homeland Security if public officials are gunned down like this?

The frequency of attacks on police and DAs may or may not be linked, but the IDEA certainly IS...make the law enforcement afraid to do their jobs to allow criminals more latitude in their affairs.

I am sick to death of having STUPIDITY rule our nation - we waste resources on x-ray peep shows at airports and sniffing grandma's shoes; yet instead of treating these cases as DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, and sicking the dogs on them, we allow this kind of rampant criminality to go on without an appropriate response.

I have to tell you, I feel A LOT LESS SECURE knowing that the criminal justice system can be intimidated and bullied than I fear foreign terrorists.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Link to the local newspaper

http://www.williamsondailynews.com/view/full_story/22146234/article-Breaking-News--Mingo-County-Sheriff-murdered?

[lastlib]

7. Has Mr. La Pee-Error been reached for comment??

[Rozlee]

8. My kids moved from San Antonio to W.V. after my grandson was born to get away from the drug problems

in the city. They were afraid for my grandson and still thought the old gang problem of the 80s and 90s was raging in the city. My daughter-in-law longed for the security of the rural town she'd been brought up in around the Shady Spring/Cool Ridge area. They were shocked at the change that had occurred in her absence. Meth and illegal pill drug use were rampant and my daughter-in-law's families in Daniels and Beckley had their homes broken into multiple times. Her family slept with their guns in their bedrooms. They were all tiny rural towns in the area, but were all experiencing crime waves due to drug abusers needing to steal to fund their habit. It was shocking to me too. I remember W.V. being bucolic, even if parts of it tended toward racism and misogyny. The FBI statistics are true. Crime really has been moving to America's rural areas.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. When the jobs leave...

...and the future looks like crap, drugs become an option, and so does selling them.

[Rozlee]

10. So true.