In the late summer of 2003 a string of sniper-style shootings terrorized the Charleston, West Virginia area. Jeanie Patton, a 31-year-old Caucasian woman, was killed on the evening of August 14, 2003 at a Speedway gas station in Campbells Creek when a single bullet struck the back of her head as she prepared to pay for gasoline. Her death occurred amid other shootings that also claimed Gary Carrier Jr. and Okey Meadows Jr., creating widespread fear.

Early ballistic testing linked Patton’s killing to Meadows by showing the same .22-caliber rifle was used. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a dark-colored pickup driven by a large white male near the attack sites. Investigators later concluded Patton was the intended target; police said the motive involved a dispute over an automobile engine that contained a hidden stash of methamphetamine, and a witness reported Lester had admitted he would take something important to the boyfriend who allegedly took from him. A suspect was arrested in March 2011, indicted in August 2011, and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for Patton, receiving a 40-year sentence plus federal firearms time. The other two victims’ families remain without a definitive resolution to who killed their loved ones.

Did anyone in the Campbells Creek or Charleston area remember seeing a dark pickup truck in August 2003 or have information about activity around the Speedway that night?