Proctorville man shot during holdup
By Jeff Henson
HNN Writer At-Large

Another good Samaritan is rewarded with violence.

Late last week, a man who tried to help his neighbor during what could
have been a very violent situation wound up with a crescent wrench
crashing into his skull.

On Tuesday night, a 20-year-old Proctorville man who gave a woman a
ride to the 1800 block of Ninth Avenue was held up by a gun-packing guy
who shot him after demanding his wallet, a Huntington police report said.

The victim was shot in the left pinky finger. He was treated at Cabell
Huntington Hospital.

The gunman did not get the wallet.

About 11:10 p.m., the victim got off work and picked up a woman who
needed a ride from Infocision. He dropped her off on Ninth Avenue. When
the victim got out of the car, a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt pulled
out a chrome semi-automatic handgun and demanded his wallet.

When the victim put his hands in the air, the gunman fired one round,
hitting the victim in the hand. The gunman fled the scene.

These good Samaritans need full body armor and protective headgear.

Other news from the Huntington Police Department Wednesday:

----- An employee of Little Caesar's Pizza was robbed by a man wearing
a hooded sweatshirt who may have been carrying a weapon. He got away
with an unknown amount of money in a deposit bag.

The employee, a 23-year-old Cattletsburg woman, had been closing the
store at 100 Seventh Ave. when a man wearing a green hooded sweatshirt
and a black bandana around his face approached her with his hands in his
sweatshirt pockets, as if he had a weapon. He told her, "Give me the
bag!" She did. He took off.

----- They're coming from Columbus to get her.

That's what a 19-year-old Huntington woman faces.

The woman told police Monday that some people said last Friday that
there was a price on her head. They also said a man's friends from
Columbus were coming down to get her.

On Tuesday, a woman told her that the people who said there was a price
on her head were trying to find her. The people told the woman, "We're
going to shoot that -----!"

The people sat in their car at the Olive Street Market and waited 30
minutes for the 19-year-old woman to arrive.

There were no additional details.

----- Warrants for domestic battery and grand larceny were taken out
against a local man who hit a 19-year-old Chesapeake woman and their
2-month-old daughter about 5:50 p.m. Tuesday on 17th Street.

The woman told police she was visiting a friend when the man started an
argument. He hit and choked her. During the attack, he struck the baby.
The woman's friend tried to break up the fight, but not before the man
punched the woman in the stomach.

He took the woman's car keys and fled the area in her car. An officer
spotted the car in the 1600 block of Eighth Avenue. The man jumped from
the car and fled on foot.

----- Given the option of choosing his family or choosing crack, the
man headed to Artisan Avenue, where the rock rules.

A 39-year-old Huntington man was arrested on charges of domestic
battery and fleeing after he beat a 19-year-old Huntington woman in the 900
block of 17th Street about 12:25 a.m. Wednesday.

The woman told police that after the man came home and stayed briefly,
he told her he was going to leave. Believing he was going to smoke
crack, she gave him an ultimatum: choose your family, or choose crack.

He got mad. He hit her in the face. He slapped her with an open hand.
He left home on a bicycle.

Police found the man in the 1600 block of Artisan Avenue. While police
were talking to the man, he took off on foot. He was captured in the
900 block of 17th Street.

----- A co-owner of a downtown bar said that a former employee stole
$2,500, which the employee claimed the corporation that owns the bar owes
him.

At Fluid, 611 Fourth Ave., the co-owner told police that the former
employee managed the bar on the weekend of Oct. 18-22, when he took the
money.

The co-owner said neither the bar nor the corporation owes the former
employee any money. The former employee was asked to produce proof of a
debt owed him, but he didn't.

The former employee did not have authorization to take the money, the
co-owner said.

----- A terminally ill, 45-year-old Huntington man said someone got
into his home in the 500 block of North High Street and stole several
prescription medications he needs between 2:30 and 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.

Stolen was a loaded .357 Magnum and bottles of Percocets, Methadone and
Valium, among others.

The man believes the thief is someone he knows, because he has a dog
that would have attacked a stranger. He gave police the name of a
suspect.

The thief got into the home through an unlocked door. The man was at
the store.

----- A 1995 Jeep Wrangler was stolen from the 1200 block of 12th
Street between 8:30 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday, a 37-year-old Huntington
man reported.

----- A 17-year-old local girl reported as a runaway by the West
Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources was found at Harris
Riverfront Park.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the girl was listed as a runaway. At 8 p.m., the
girl was found at the 10th Street end of the park. She was turned over to
her father.

----- Arrested: Okey C. Price, 66, of 1329 Madison Ave. #701, on
charges of carrying a concealed weapon and public intoxication.

About 9 p.m. Tuesday, the man walked into St. Mary's Hospital with a
head injury. He had a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his jacket pocket.

----- Arrested: Jack L. Cooksey, 30, of 209 West Fifth St., on two
felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to
deliver. He was arrested about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Be well.