Nate Chaney, a 22-year-old Black man from Charleston, West Virginia, was fatally shot on January 14, 2016. The shooting happened about 12:15 p.m. in the parking lot of Littlepage Terrace Apartments on the 1700 block of Washington Street West on Charleston’s West Side. Chaney was struck multiple times, including several rounds to the head, and was pronounced dead at CAMC General Hospital a short time after being rushed there.

Police early on said investigators developed information tying the killing to a dispute over a drug debt rather than the cluster of recent shootings in the neighborhood. Within a day authorities identified Dimitris Domenique Malone, also known as Meech, as the person they believed responsible and issued a murder warrant. Malone disappeared and remained a fugitive for years while Chaney’s family pushed for an arrest. A Kanawha County grand jury later returned an indictment charging Malone with murder; federal authorities issued a fugitive arrest warrant and he was arrested in Vermont in September 2020. The prosecution in Kanawha County was then pursued.