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GRANTSVILLE – Four Wood County residents have been charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and conspiracy in the death of a Parkersburg man whose body was found Saturday in a ditch in Calhoun County.
According to criminal complaints filed today in Calhoun County Magistrate Court, Alex Justin Dunn, 27, of 4303 14th Ave., Parkersburg, killed Parkersburg resident Lewis Bartlett III with four shots from a .22-caliber handgun on Friday, July 22, on Hardman Fork Road in Mount Zion. They had driven to the location with three other suspects to retrieve methamphetamine and cash Bartlett hid there earlier in the day, the complaints say.
Also charged are Alisha Dawn Walker, 26, of 4303 14th Ave., Parkersburg; Derryl “Obama” Anderson, 52, stated homeless; and Trudy Ellen Dowler, 38, of 79 Sandlewood Drive, Williamstown.
Dunn and Walker are also charged with kidnapping, burglary and conspiracy in an incident from the same day.
Read the full story in Friday’s edition of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel.