Michelle Daniels, 47, of Huntington, West Virginia, was found with severe injuries at a home in the 900 block of 12th Avenue on Friday, September 20, 2024. She was transported to a local hospital and died there on the evening of Sunday, September 22, 2024; authorities later classified her death as a homicide and described it as a shooting.

Investigators focused on Michelle’s husband, 55-year-old Robert Lee Daniels, and asked that he be considered armed and dangerous. Law enforcement noted he had ties to Huntington, Mingo County, West Virginia, and Pike County, Kentucky. He was taken into custody in Mingo County on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, on unrelated felony warrants alleging threats of terroristic acts and retaliation against a public official; officials said he had allegedly gone there intending to harm deputies but was arrested without incident.

Huntington police later charged Robert Lee Daniels with first-degree murder in Michelle’s death; he was also facing Mingo County charges including two counts of retaliation against a public official and two counts of terroristic acts and was being held at Southwestern Regional Jail on $1 million bond. If anyone knew Michelle or has information about what happened that weekend, please share what you know.