After the Prom: 4 murders

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Police brought several people in for questioning and searched for clues Monday in the shooting deaths of four teenagers on the morning after the prom.

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4518494/detail.html

Police from four agencies were conducting at least two raids Monday morning in the Huntington area, but are not confirming a possible connection with the quadruple shooting deaths of four teens Sunday morning.

http://www.hdonline.com/2005/May/23/brknews.htm

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Two morning police raids and one traffic stop netted nine individuals Monday, but Huntington Police Capt. Steven Hall said none of them had been arrested or labeled as suspects in the quadruple murder.

However, Cabell County Prosecutor Chris Chiles said Monday evening that some of the individuals had been arrested on unrelated charges.

http://www.hdonline.com/2005/May/24/LNspot.htm

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Four teenagers were shot to death outside a home over the weekend, and a girl who lives next door told her mother she heard gunfire and a girl pleading for her life.

Christy Thomas, a neighbor of Ward's, said her 12-year-old daughter awoke early Sunday to the sound of gunshots and screaming, and saw two bodies when she looked out her bedroom window.

"She said the gunshots sounded like cannons going off," said Thomas, who was at work at the time. "She said she heard a girl say, 'Please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me.'"

Three of the teens were dead when police arrived and the fourth died a short time later at Cabell-Huntington Hospital, police said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/may/23/052307938.html

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Police believe a 19-year-old man may have been the intended target when he was gunned down in his front yard along with three teens, but authorities were no closer to knowing what prompted the shootings.

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4523768/detail.html

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They call it the Detroit connection.

It's a link police say is responsible for importing a steady flow of drugs and crime to Huntington, W.Va. It now is the focus of an investigation into the deaths of four teenagers, found shot outside a Huntington home early Sunday morning after a local high school prom.

"Do I think the murders have a Detroit connection? Yes," Huntington Police Capt. Steven Hall said Tuesday. "A substantial amount of our violent crime stems from Detroit."

http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0505/25/A03-192998.htm

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Investigators have leveled firearm, drug and stolen property charges against several individuals, many from Detroit, as they sift through numerous interviews and tips looking for those responsible in killing four area teenagers early Sunday morning.

However, no charges directly related to the deaths had been filed as of Tuesday evening

http://www.hdonline.com/2005/May/25/LNspot.htm

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Hall said the community’s response has been better than expected, and regional departments -- including agencies in Lexington, Ky., and Hanging Rock, Ohio -- have offered information from previous Detroit-related drug investigations

Hall said his department also has gained usable information from recent Detroit arrestees charged with unrelated crimes.

Hall said more unrelated arrests have been made since Monday as detectives continue questioning almost anyone with Detroit ties.

According to department reports, one traffic stop Wednesday nabbed a Michigan man with $2,027, two cell phones, 32.4 grams of marijuana in his shoes and a contact list of names and phone numbers.

http://www.hdonline.com/2005/May/27/LNspot.htm

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A woman being held in Detroit could be a key to solving the slayings of four teens in Huntington last month.

The Detroit News reported Monday that Cherylethia Glenchelle Holmes, 23, was arrested Friday on federal drug charges.

But Police Capt. Steve Hall told 13 News Monday that Holmes is "not linked to the murders."

The teens, who were killed about 4:30 a.m. on May 22, were:

Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio.
Michael Dillon, a 17-year-old junior at Huntington High School.
Megan Poston of Barboursville, a 16-year-old junior at Cabell Midland High School.
Donte Ward, 19. The slayings occurred outside his home on Charleston Avenue.

http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=3221