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Man charged in alleged Grant County hit-and-run death

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PETERSBURG – A Hardy County man was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with the alleged murder of Bobby Lee Shoemaker.

Joshua Edmund Evans, 32, of Old Fields, is charged with one felony count of second-degree murder. He is incarcerated at Potomac Highlands Regional Jail on a $350,000 cash-only bond, set by Grant County Magistrate Emory W. Feaster Jr.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Grant County Magistrate Court, at approximately 5:30 p.m. on July 14, Grant County Sheriff’s Department Senior Deputy D.L. Lambert was contacted by Grant County Communications. He was advised that a Petersburg Fire Department unit was requesting his assistance at the bottom of Welton Orchard Road in Petersburg.

Once on scene, a member of the fire department informed him of a body that was discovered laying over the embankment.

Lambert observed the body laying roughly 25 feet over the embankment and later identified the deceased to be Shoemaker, of Petersburg, according to the complaint written by Senior Deputy K.R. Thorne, also of the GCSD.

Read the full report in Wednesday’s edition of The Inter-Mountain.

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