Ryan Lee Sines was 43 when he was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Albright, West Virginia, on Monday, November 16, 2020. The killing began with a verbal altercation at the Albright apartment that escalated; the victim and another man — the boyfriend of Sines’s cousin — argued and a firearm was produced, resulting in Sines being fatally shot.

Law enforcement responded to the scene and launched an investigation. The man identified as the shooter, the cousin’s boyfriend, was taken into custody and charged with murder in connection with Ryan Sines’s death. Sines, known to friends and family as Bub, lived in Fairmont and worked as a drywaller with the local union; he is survived by a daughter and a sister.

If anyone knew Ryan Bub Sines, was at the Albright apartment that day, or has information about the confrontation, please come forward.