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

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]9 questioned in murders[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Police: ‘Strongest theory’ links murders of four teens to Detroit[/font]​
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]HUNTINGTON -- A buzz of police activity and a flood of tears fell upon the Greater Huntington area Monday as many continued to mourn the murder of four teenagers who were shot early Sunday morning.[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]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.[/font]
 
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
 
these 4 kids look like good kids. Why did this happen?

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The victims[/font]
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[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Eddrick Clark[/font]​
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[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Michael Dillon[/font]​
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[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Megan Poston[/font]​
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[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Donté Ward[/font]​
 
This is to close to home. It seems that 1 victim was the target and the other 3 were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Donté Ward, incidentally, was the victim of another shooting Feb. 7 in the 1600 block of 8th Avenue, according to a Huntington Police Department report that refers to the incident as a malicious wounding.[/font]
http://www.hdonline.com/2005/May/24/LNspot.htm
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
Where -- and who -- were four teenagers "shot to death"? No way to tell from the thread title.

"After the prom" doesn't tell me much, either.

PLEASE, when opening threads, include some specific information in the thread title.

Too many thread titles read like tabloid headlines, and mods constantly have to edit titles to reflect at least some pertinent info.

I don't think it's too much to ask for a state prefix and a suspect's or vicitm's name.

Example: XX - John Doe, blah blah blah...month/year
 
COLD CASE: Prom Night Murders 10 Years Later

Updated: Fri 7:46 PM, May 22, 2015

By: Dan Griffin

[...]
Megan Poston, Michael Dillon, Eddrick Clark and Donte Ward were all killed.

It happened outside Ward's apartment on Charleston Avenue in Huntington.
Ten years later, the family still has unanswered questions and no closure, because no one has ever been charged with their murders.

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Oh yeah, I understand it is a very vague title. I didn't mean it in like an absurd way that this case wasn't in that section versus this one.

Megan Poston, Michael Dillon, Eddrick Clark and Donte Ward are the names of the victims. All four of them were shot during the early hours of May 22, 2005 in Huntington West Virginia.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1860200369/Haunted-by-slaying-of-4-teens-families-continue-to-ask-why

Ward, 19, of Huntington; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; and Megan Poston, 16, of Barboursville were shot to death, five years ago Saturday. Police believe a drug dispute motivated someone to target Ward and kill the others to eliminate witnesses.

http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/Nine-Years-Later-Families-Waiting-for-Answers-in-Prom-Night-Murders-260327531.html

http://westvirginianews.blogspot.com/2011/02/document-may-shed-new-light-on-2005.html
 
Wow.. Still not much information. [emoji52]


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http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news...cle_b2ff0646-2c77-5a1b-89c3-9be7d739bffb.html

Memorial services have been set for Saturday, May 21, in memory of four Tri-State teenagers and a Marshall University student whose deaths have remained unsolved for several years.

The Huntington community is invited to join the service at 6 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene, located at 321 30th St., Huntington.

Donte Ward, 19, of Huntington; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; and Megan Poston, 16, of Barboursville, were shot and killed May 22, 2005, in front of Ward's home... No one has been charged in the shootings.
 
Mothers of victims of violence speak out

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/mothers-of-victims-of-violence-speak-out/article_f7a4db8a-6cc6-11e6-aa10-bba2d654a681.html

On Sunday, May 22, 2005, Tina Ward received the worst news a mother could imagine.

Her 19-year-old son, Donte, was dead. He and three other teens had been shot to death on prom night.

It's been 11 years since Megan Poston, 16, of Barboursville; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; and Donte Ward were killed. It happened outside Ward's apartment on Charleston Avenue in Huntington.

Tina Ward was one of two mothers who lost children to violence to speak to members of the community during a local youth rally against drug and crime violence Saturday in Huntington, just off Hal Greer Boulevard and 10th Avenue.

"I cried for two years straight after it happened, and lost myself," Ward said. "It was and continues to be a daily struggle."

"I want to share my experience with strength and hope," she said.
 

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