SPRING MILLS, W.Va. — A woman was shot to death and her ex-husband arrested in an incident in Spring Mills Monday morning.
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department says they were called to an urgent care in Spring Mills for a reported shooting just after 8:30 Monday morning.
There, they found a shooting victim, 49-year-old Jennifer Conley of Hedgesville unresponsive in the parking lot. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A short time later, Martinsburg Police conducted a traffic stop involving the suspect, identified as the victim’s ex-husband Dennis Conley, 53. Police recovered a firearm during that stop.
Investigators say Conley had been making criminal threats toward the victim in the months preceding the shooting.
Conley has been charged with murder.
He has been arraigned and is currently lodged in the Eastern Regional Jail without bond.