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PADEN CITY -The case against a woman charged with fatally shooting a man on her porch last month will go before a Wetzel County grand jury in September.
Jessica Dawn Quinn, 36, of 114 S. Third St., Paden City, was charged with murder following the June 8 shooting of Kevin Thompson. According to Wetzel County Prosecutor Timothy Haught, Quinn waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday.
Haught added Thompson’s autopsy is not complete and further details of the case are still under investigation.
According to the criminal complaint filed by the Paden City detachment of the West Virginia State Police, the county 911 center received a call reporting a gunshot at Quinn’s residence. When responders arrived, they found Thompson on the ground with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. The victim was transferred to the Wetzel County Hospital, where he died hours later.
Law enforcement on scene secured a silver automatic pistol on scene belonging to Thompson, the criminal complaint states. Quinn’s uncle, an eye witness to the events, claimed he had stopped by the home after Quinn advised him she was in fear for her safety due to a male physically assaulting her a few days prior.
According to the complaint, Quinn told her uncle she was in possesion of the firearm, and he advised her to give it to him for her safety. When she refused, he left the residence but returned later, when he observed a white man with a beard, later identified as Thompson, entering the back porch of the residence.
According to the witness statement, Quinn’s uncle was not aware of who had hit his niece and assumed Thompson was that man, prompting him to confront him and ask him to leave the residence. The witness stated he then immediately heard the gunshot.
According to the account, Thompson made no verbal threats to harm anyone at the residence and was not behaving in an aggressive manner prior to the shooting. Following the gunshot, the witness yelled for someone to call 911 and grabbed the firearm out of Quinn’s hand.
Quinn’s two small children were inside the residence when the shooting took place. She was later arrested by state troopers.
Following her arrest, Quinn admitted to shooting Thompson but claimed it was due to her being in fear of her children’s safety. She reportedly admitted, however, he was not attempting to harm her or her uncle and had not made any verbal threats against her or her children.
A man who accompanied Thompson to the residence said the two had traveled to the residence to deliver firewood, according to police. Officers observed Thompson did not have a weapon and found firewood during a search of his vehicle.
Quinn remains housed at the Northern Regional Jail. No bond has been set.