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Federal agents join sniper investigation in West Virginia

With three people dead in similar single-shot sniper attacks in West Virginia last week, federal agents who investigated the serial sniper case in the Washington area last year have joined the investigation, officials said on Monday.

"We wanted to get those agencies in here now," Sheriff Dave Tucker of the Kanawha County said in Charleston, the state capital and county seat. "We don't want to overlook anything that could result the way it did" last year, when 13 men and women were killed, most in suburban Washington.

Tucker said 15 teams of two or three officers each -- drawn from city, county and state agencies, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- are on the case.

The first victim was Gary Carrier, who the police said was shot in the head and killed Aug. 10. They said he was standing at a pay phone near a Go-Mart convenience store in Charleston.

On Aug. 14, Jeannie Patton died from a shot to the head while pumping gas in Campbells Creek, an unincorporated town three miles east of Charleston.

Later that night, Okey Meadows, was killed outside a Go-Mart convenience store 14 miles southeast of the city, by a shot to the neck.
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