In the early morning of March 12, 2020, two young men were found shot to death on Reese Harmon Ridge Road in the Lashmeet area of West Virginia. Deputies from the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office arrived after reports of gunfire around 6:30 a.m. and pronounced 19-year-old Joshua Allen Williams and 20-year-old Dalton Ramsey dead at the scene, triggering a double homicide investigation.

Within a day investigators traced a primary suspect, 19-year-old Kenneth Jacob Adkins, to Ohio; he was arrested there on March 13, 2020, and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said they believed the killings were connected to gang or drug-related activity.

Williams, a 2018 PikeView High School graduate, played basketball and football and enjoyed dirt biking and four-wheelers. Anyone who knew Joshua or has information about the killings is asked to come forward.