RAND, W.Va. — A Kanawha County man suffered life-threatening injuries in a Wednesday morning shooting at a residence in Rand.
Kanawha County sheriff’s deputies responded to an apartment in the 5300 block of Starling Drive at approximately 9 a.m. and found Gerald Maxwell, 28, of Rand, with a gunshot wound to the head.
Sheriff’s Department spokesman Cpl. Brian Humphreys said deputies spoke with witnesses and neighbors and within 90 minutes a suspect was taken into custody. Leonard Thomas, 44, of Rand, was charged with malicious wounding after he was found at a home on Raven Drive. No other details were released.
Thomas is being held at the South Central Regional Jail on $100,000 bail. Maxwell is in critical condition at CAMC.