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Joshua Craig Webb, 33, was found dead on the wheelchair ramp of the Executive Manor apartment building in downtown Beckley, West Virginia, shortly after 1:30 a.m. on July 23, 2018. Authorities say Webb had been shot in the face at close range on Main Street; the discovery prompted an immediate police investigation.

Investigators reviewed surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses, identifying two Beckley residents as suspects: Marshall Ratliff, then 24, and Angus Moodie Jr., then 38. Both were arrested within a day. Prosecutors alleged the killing stemmed from a conflict after Webb had allegedly flirted with Ratliff’s girlfriend, and that Moodie supplied the firearm used in the shooting.

Ratliff was charged with first-degree murder, later pleading guilty to second-degree murder and receiving the maximum 40-year sentence after the court found him competent; his defense had raised mental illness. Moodie pleaded guilty to accessory before the fact to first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm and was sentenced to up to ten years. Webb’s family remembered him as a son, husband, and father who enjoyed basketball, video games, and fishing.

Did anyone in Beckley see or hear anything that night that could shed more light on what led to the confrontation?