Katie Ann Toler, a 29-year-old woman from Branchland, West Virginia, was shot and killed during a late-night confrontation on March 30, 2015, along Coal River Road near Tornado in Lincoln County. The shooting occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Toler was in the driver’s position of a vehicle with Chad Mays when an encounter at the property of Andrew Staggs escalated into gunfire; both Toler and Mays were struck and the vehicle later was located in St.

Albans, where deputies found Toler dead and Mays seriously wounded and taken to CAMC General Hospital. Staggs was arrested and charged with murder and malicious wounding, with prosecutors alleging a dispute over a vehicle and other property and that Staggs pointed a firearm and then fired multiple rounds. Staggs pleaded not guilty and argued he shot in self-defense, saying he was attacked and did not know Toler was in the car; a Lincoln County jury acquitted him of both charges on April 27, 2016.

Did anyone who knew Katie or was in that area that night notice details about the confrontation or the vehicle involved?