Charleston police have made an arrest in a New Year's Day homicide, the third arrest in three deadly shootings over the last nine days on the city's West Side.
Charleston detectives, along with Morgantown police and a Morgantown SWAT team, arrested Antonio Carnell Williams II, 23, in Morgantown on Tuesday.
Williams is being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shannon Cade, 20, who died after he was shot late Friday night in a house on the 800 block of Mathews Avenue. Cade was shot while sitting at the kitchen table, according to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. He died the next day at an area hospital.
A 14-year-old girl, identified as C.K., also was shot in the house. She was shot in the head, according to the criminal complaint, but sustained minor wounds.
Williams, who has addresses in both Morgantown and Charleston, was arrested without incident, said Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for Charleston police.
Williams' arrest stemmed from a tip police received from an eyewitness, Williams' girlfriend, who said she was with Williams at the time of the shooting, Cooper said.
Police do not currently believe that Cade was the intended target of the shooting, Cooper said. The shooting, police believe, was the result of a disagreement involving Williams' girlfriend.
The witness told police that Williams went to the specific house on Mathews Avenue "in order to shoot up the house," Cooper said.
According to the criminal complaint, Williams drove to the Mathews Avenue house with his girlfriend and two other people after hearing that his girlfriend had spent time with another man there.
Williams and his girlfriend got out of the car, according to the criminal complaint, but the girlfriend believed he intended to fight the man inside.
"Instead, Mr. Williams, retrieved a black semi-automatic hand gun from his waist and began firing his weapon at the people inside," the complaint says.
The girlfriend, as she was running away, heard a brief pause and then several more shots, the complaint says.
"Mr. Williams immediately came back to the vehicle and said, 'I've got to get a new gun because this one jammed on me,'" the complaint says.
A 17-year-old juvenile was also arrested in Morgantown and was charged with being an accessory after the fact, Cooper said.
Cade's killing was the third in Charleston over a span of six days last week. Arrests have now been made in all three cases.
"We believe now that all three of these cases have been solved, that things should quiet down and there won't be any concern about repeat offenders, because the suspects are all locked up," Cooper said.
He added that further arrests remain possible and the cases are still under investigation.
Cooper said that increased patrols would remain on the city's West Side, while also reiterating that a very small number of people were responsible for the headline-grabbing crimes.
Police announced the increased patrols at a Monday news conference, in which they also announced the arrests of several individuals affiliated with rival groups.
The three killings, Cooper said, could be related to a dispute between the groups, which carry the gang names the Shine Boys and the Young Restless Gunnas.
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