PINEVILLE —
Police have captured a suspect wanted in the slaying of a Wyoming County woman during a robbery.
The Wyoming County Sheriff’s Department tells media outlets that 20-year-old John New of Briar Creek was arrested Wednesday morning in Mingo County. New is charged with first-degree murder, grand larceny and daytime robbery.
Police say 60-year-old Elaine Birchfield of Brenton was killed Tuesday evening after she came home and interrupted a robbery. Birchfield’s truck was taken from the scene.
Gilbert police officers saw the truck Wednesday morning, stopped it and arrested New.
The cause of Birchfield’s death hasn’t been released.
Birchfield was a school bus driver whose route served Huff Consolidated School.
Wyoming County Schools Superintendent Frank Blackwell says grief counselors are at the school Wednesday.
WV State News
February 13, 2013
Wyoming County woman killed during robbery
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