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On November 27, 2016, 16-year-old Jeremy Ray Daugherty was shot and killed inside the family home in the Coon Branch area of McDowell County, West Virginia. Video surveillance showed Michael Glenn Kennedy, the estranged husband of Jeremy’s mother Jessica Daugherty, forcing his way through the front door with a gun drawn and then shooting both Jessica and Jeremy. Jeremy died at the scene; Jessica was critically wounded, shot twice, one bullet penetrating her brain.

Jessica, while gravely injured and largely nonverbal thereafter, made a recorded statement identifying Michael Glenn Kennedy as the shooter; that recording was later ruled admissible under the dying declaration exception. Kennedy fled with Jessica’s purse but was found in a nearby wooded area in Wyoming County and arrested. In recorded interviews at the State Police detachment he admitted shooting both victims, claimed self-defense alleging Jeremy pulled a gun, and admitted taking money from the purse and buying drugs before his arrest. Kennedy’s motion to suppress his statements was denied.

Does anyone have additional information about the scene that night or remember seeing suspicious activity in Coon Branch around November 27, 2016?