Matthew Allen Bills, a 37-year-old man from Williamstown, West Virginia, was killed in a shooting at his Maple Drive home on March 18, 2025. Deputies found Bills dead of gunshot wounds and Barbra Barbie Cupp inside the house with a gunshot wound to the shoulder; she was taken for emergency treatment. The incident opened as a domestic shooting and became a trial focused on two sharply different versions of the same morning.

Prosecutors alleged Cupp shot Bills three times — chest, abdomen and back — and presented evidence including a firearm with blood on it and signs it had been fired multiple times, arguing jealousy and alleged infidelity as motive. The defense portrayed Bills as the aggressor, saying he pointed a .357 Magnum at Cupp, they struggled, and she shot him while trying to save herself, suffering serious injuries including damage to her arm and trauma to her face and head.

Cupp was indicted on murder and firearms-possession charges and was standing trial in Wood County Circuit Court by March 2026. No other suspects had been publicly identified; no conviction had been reported. Does anyone have information about the relationship or the events that morning that could help clarify what happened?