WV - Jerry Chesterfield, 31, shot to death, Fayetteville, 28 April 2005

Boone said five rounds were fired from what police said earlier was a semiautomatic weapon and that four struck Chesterfield.

"He died as a result of being shot those four times," Boone added.

When police arrived at the scene of the shooting on the night of April 28, Chesterfield was dead, Hess was still in the funeral home and five rounds of ammunition littered the floor, authorities said earlier.

Although Hess was identified as the person who fired the shots, charges were not immediately filed to allow time for the investigation to flesh out certain details. State Police said at the time they were investigating allegations that Chesterfield had a history of domestic violence against his wife, Hess' daughter. They also said Hess, a lifelong Fayetteville resident and business leader, was not a flight risk.

http://www.register-herald.com/articles/2005/05/28/news/bhess28.txt

From April 2006:

http://www.register-herald.com/news...cle_2125b56a-e166-5c53-a890-1e104ca30800.html

The Fayette County Courthouse erupted with a collective gasp — or sigh of relief, depending on which side of the room you were on — as 12 jurors Monday acquitted prominent Fayetteville businessman Larry Hess of the first-degree murder charge that hung over his head for nearly a year...

Earlier Monday, Hess, 56, had taken the witness stand in his own defense and verbally walked jurors through the months and hours leading up to the fateful moment of 8:30 p.m. last April 28, when he shot and killed his son-in-law, Jerry Chesterfield...

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