HUNTINGTON,W.Va. — An Akron, Ohio man was arrested Sunday in Akron and charged with murdering two Huntington brothers early Friday morning.
A statement from Huntington Police Chief Phil Watkins said Kevante White. 27, shot and killed Adrian Phillips and Derious Johnson in a parking lot on 14th Street. Phillips worked for the city and Johnson was a middle school basketball coach at St. Joseph’s Middle School.
White was also charged with malicious wounding after a third man was injured. He remains in a Huntington hospital in stable condition.
No motive has been released.
According to Watkins’ statement, “On Sunday, February 22, White was located and arrested in Stark County, Ohio, by the US Marshals Service and the Stark County Sheriff’s Office on two counts of first-degree murder and malicious wounding warrants. He will be held in a correctional facility in Stark County, Ohio, as a fugitive from justice awaiting extradition to West Virginia.”