An argument over a girlfriend is believed to have been at the heart of an Wednesday morning murder in the Kanawha County community of Chesapeake.
Police say William Proctor, 30, of Witcher Creek was stabbed in the neck and shoulder area as he sat in a car near the corner of 116th Street and MacCorkle Avenue in Chesapeake sometime after midnight Wednesday morning.
Police have charged Joshua Long, 23, of Chesapeake with the murder.
Chesapeake Police Chief Jack Ice says the girlfriend, Natalie Brown of Chesapeake, was in the car with Long, but left his car and climbed into another vehicle with the victim Proctor and the victim's father.
"When she got into the vehicle, the accused ran up to the vehicle and stabbed the victim one time in the neck and shoulder area,” said Ice.
Proctor was driven to the Marmet area where Kanawha County paramedics attempted to save him but could not.
Soon afterward Ice went to a home where he learned Long was hiding.
"He was advised of his rights and he led me to the area where he had thrown the weapon away and then he gave a full confession to the crime," said Ice.
The weapon was a Marine Corps K-Bar knife. It's been recovered. I
Chief Ice says from all indications, the victim never saw it coming.
"It was so quick and the wound was probably so traumatic there was probably no way he could survive it," Ice said.
Long remains in the South Central Regional Jail without bail after being arraigned on the murder charge.
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