An argument between two brothers on a Friday evening in Logan County, West Virginia, turned deadly. On February 17, 2017, at a home on Thunder Road near Chapmanville, 77-year-old Charles Kinney, a White male and United States Navy veteran, was shot at close range in the leg with a shotgun during a dispute. He was transported to Logan Regional Medical Center with a serious wound.

The alleged shooter was Charles’s brother, 62-year-old Billy Kinney. West Virginia State Police arrested Billy at the scene and charged him with malicious wounding; he was held in the Southwestern Regional Jail pending further proceedings. Charles was later moved to CAMC Memorial in Charleston, where he died on February 19, 2017.

Charles was remembered by friends as a wonderful man who enjoyed hunting and fishing.