Brent Tyler Kelly appears in a police mugshot.
A man seen bloodied and with a bandage on his head in a West Virginia mugshot is accused of murder after a shootout left one sheriff’s deputy dead and another law enforcement officer wounded on Friday evening.
Brent Tyler Kelly, 28, is being held without bail at the Central Regional Jail in Flatwoods, Braxton County. The 5’3″, 140-pound defendant was booked into custody at 3:30 a.m., according to jail records. He’s listed as a “pretrial felon” under Nicholas County Case 22-M34F-00107. Nicholas County jail records, which are separate from the regional jail records, say Kelly is charged with first-degree murder.
The Nicholas County Sheriff’s Department wrote that the deadly events unfolded when deputies responded to a report of a “domestic disturbance in the Birch River area” at around 5:00 p.m. on Friday. There, in a camper, responding officers found Kelly and an alleged accomplice named Ritchie Holcomb. (Holcomb’s birthdate was initially given as “12/77/85,” which, of course, must be an error of some sort.)
Brent Tyler Kelly is shown in a Central Regional Jail booking photo.
The scene was in the vicinity of U.S. 19, according to Huntington, West Virginia CBS affiliate WOWK.
“The two came out of the camper talking with deputies,” but “at some point the suspects became agitated running back into the camper,” Sheriff William F. Nunley wrote on Facebook.
“Deputies perused [sic] them into the camper discharging a taser,” Nunley said.
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