{"id":1944003,"date":"2023-06-04T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officers-finally-get-their-hands-on-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-decorated-state-trooper\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T21:28:21","slug":"officers-finally-get-their-hands-on-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-decorated-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officers-finally-get-their-hands-on-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-decorated-state-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Fatal Shooting of State Trooper Finally Caught by Officers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fofficers-finally-get-their-hands-on-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-decorated-state-trooper%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Manhunt Ends in Arrest of Suspect in Fatal Shooting of West Virginia State Police Sgt. Cory Maynard<\/h2>\n<p>A multi-hour manhunt on Friday resulted in the arrest of a suspect in the death of West Virginia State Police Sgt. Cory Maynard. Maynard was shot after responding to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-nashville-cop-claims-he-heard-message-from-god-that-saved-him-from-rv-explosion-video\/\" title=\"WATCH: Nashville Cop Claims He Heard Message From God That Saved Him From RV Explosion (VIDEO)\">shots fired<\/a>\u201d call in what police have termed an ambush-type incident in the Beech Creek area.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Kennedy, 29, was arrested Friday at about 10 p.m. and arraigned Saturday on a charge of first-degree murder. Kennedy was arrested after driving into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officers-finally-get-their-hands-on-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-decorated-state-trooper\/\" title=\"Suspect in Fatal Shooting of State Trooper Finally Caught by Officers.\">state police command post set<\/a> up after the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is an updated photo of West Virginia State Police Sgt. Cory Maynard just sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WVVA?\">@WVVA<\/a> by WVSP. Trooper Maynard was shot and killed in an ambush-style attack Friday after responding to a call for shots fired near Matewan in Mingo County, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rymltV3dUT\">https:\/\/t.co\/rymltV3dUT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SQpKK2Vmc0\">pic.twitter.com\/SQpKK2Vmc0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melinda Zosh (@mzoshWVVA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mzoshWVVA\/status\/1665098282941521920?\">June 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 100 law enforcement officers participated in the search, which also included a West Virginia State Police helicopter.<\/p>\n<h3>Victim Honored for Lifesaving Award<\/h3>\n<p>Maynard earned a state police lifesaving award in 2015 after he gave first aid to a man who crashed his vehicle during a pursuit and also stabbed himself in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post reprinted by the Williamson Daily News, Alison Endicott Wilson, an office assistant at the West Virginia State Police\u2019s Williamson office, wrote, \u201cSimply put, he was a TROOPER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loved his family fiercely and I was honored to be a part of his family. He was an amazing investigator and fought for his victims. He took his cases personally. He was my close friend \u2026 my brother \u2026 my Sergeant. He loved his Troopers and always went out and took calls with them. My heart is shattered and broken. I\u2019ll always carry Cory with me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is hard for me, but in this instance I want to say it. He was a man that loved being a Trooper, who was in love with his family \u2026 just a great, great friend. He was stolen from us. West Virginia lost a great protector,\u201d she said later.<\/p>\n<h3>Community Mourns Loss of Maynard<\/h3>\n<p>Logan County Magistrate Dwight Williamson said Maynard \u201cwas just always super nice, quick to respond to anything that came up, and he always showed up for court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin Marcum said Maynard \u201cnever met a stranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a homeless person, if it was an attorney if it was whomever, a school teacher, he also took time to say hi to people,\u201d Marcum said. \u201cHis presence in the community as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officer<\/a> and just as a man, it\u2019s going to be dearly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Sgt. Maynard is a tragedy for his family, friends, and community. Our thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/officers-finally-get-hands-suspect-fatal-shooting-decorated-state-trooper\/\">Officers Finally Get Their Hands on Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Decorated State Trooper<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect in the death of West Virginia State Police Sgt. Cory Maynard was arrested after a multi-hour manhunt on Friday. Maynard was shot in an ambush-type incident while responding to a &#8220;shots fired&#8221; call in the Beech Creek area. The suspect, Timothy Kennedy, 29, was taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1944004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[3656,11744,5321,6452,4300,4230,25401],"class_list":["post-1944003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-caught","tag-fatal","tag-finally","tag-officers","tag-shooting","tag-suspect","tag-trooper"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}