On November 29, 2019, Jeremiah Thomas, 33, and his wife Jennifer were fatally shot on a dirt road on Weyerhaeuser property in the Williamsburg area of West Virginia after a confrontation with members of a local hunting club over the right to hunt the land. Witnesses say the disagreement escalated outside vehicles when Terri Storer, armed with a 9mm Ruger handgun, fired multiple shots. Jeremiah was struck six times and Jennifer once; both were pronounced dead at the scene.

The couple had reportedly been in a dispute with members of the Madison Hunting Club over a hunting lease. A Facebook post attributed to Jeremiah expressed frustration about people on the land and referenced shooting at trucks and becoming a lone wolf again. In August 2020, a grand jury indicted Terri Storer on two counts of murder and Randy Barnhart on two counts of accessory after the fact; prosecutors alleged Barnhart helped Storer by fabricating facts and making misrepresentations to law enforcement. The charge against Barnhart was later dismissed and Storer’s first trial ended in a mistrial.

The deaths left the Thomases’ young son without parents. Does anyone have information about the dispute over that stretch of land or the days leading up to November 29, 2019?