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MURDER VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
Webster County Murder Victims Identified By Police

Reported by: Send eMail Teresa Higginbotham
Web Producer: Teresa Higginbotham
Also Contributing: Mamie Buoy, Bethany Simmons
Reported: Jun. 29, 2012 11:05 AM EDT
Updated: Jun. 29, 2012 2:54 PM EDT

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Hacker Valley , West Virginia

The victims in the triple murder in Webster County on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 have been identified.

The victims, 26 year old Dustin Brown, along with Elle Coates, and Denise Coates, who are originally from Maryland, were found shot to death in a home in Hacker Valley.

Police arrested Michael and Amanda York for murder.

Stay tuned to Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.




A husband and wife are charged with murder after three people are found shot to death in Webster County Wednesday night.

According to a release from the Webster County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Dustin Brown, 26, of Hacker Valley, another male and female, whose names have not yet been released, were all pronounced dead at the home on Potts Run Road.

Amanda York, 28, and her husband, Michael York, 44, both of Hacker Valley, are charged with three counts of murder. Michael also faces one count of concealment of a body.

Dispatchers say Amanda told them that she shot the three victims, but when deputies arrived on the scene, her story changed. When they questioned Amanda, she admitted that Michael had fired the shots and that she told him to leave, but had helped him hide one of the bodies before he left.

Amanda told deputies that there had been a fight at the home of the deceased man and woman earlier in the day.

State police arrested Michael York on I-79 near Clay County Wednesday night.

Both Amanda York and Michael York are in the Central Regional Jail.




Police are on the scene of a triple murder in Webster County.

It happened on Potts Run Road around 7pm Wednesday.

Eyewitness News has been told that three people have been shot and killed and a suspect has been arrested. We are also told that the suspect admitted to the shooting.

We have also been told that State Police have also stopped a 1991 blue Ford Bronco driven by another suspect near the Amma Exit.

The names of the victims and suspect are not being released at this time.

Stay tuned to Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.



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