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Morgantown police release identity of murder victim

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Investigators released the identity of a man Wednesday murdered in an apartment on Forest Avenue a day earlier.

Police said Leslie Fields, 41, of Morgantown, died from multiple stab wounds to his head.

Emergency responders found him unresponsive on the floor of the apartment he shared with Brian David Greeson, 47, and Charles Ray Shaffer, 55.

Investigators said Greeson and Shaffer stabbed Fields and beat him in the head with wooden sticks.

Greeson and Shaffer were both charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder.

No bond was set on the murder charge.  A $250,000 bond was set for both men on the conspiracy charge. Both remain lodged in the North Central Regional Jail.





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