PHILIPPI — Police have released more details about the fatal shooting that occurred near the Philippi Covered Bridge Friday.

After an all-night search by law enforcement, Michael Mussi, 26, was taken into custody Saturday morning in the Beech Lick area of WV Route 57, according to the Barbour County Sheriff’s Department.

Mussi has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond in Tygart Valley Regional Jail.

The victim was identified as Tanner Talbott of Belington.

At about 5 p.m. Friday, Lt. D.A. Cale of the Philippi Police Department “responded to a shooting in progress at the Blue and Gray flag park in Philippi,” according to the criminal complaint, prepared by Cale.

At the park, Cale and other officers “observed a male subject laying on the ground who was later identified as Tanner Talbott, who had several gunshot wounds.”

Eyewitnesses told Cale that a dark blue or dark gray Toyota Tacoma fled the scene. Cale later learned that the vehicle was being driven by Mussi, he wrote.

Cale “learned that Talbott was in a intimate relationship with Mussi’s wife,” the complaint states. Cale spoke with Talbott’s fiancee, who said Mussi “had contacted her about the affair between their partners and asked what shift Tanner worked, and (she) told him that he worked day shift.”

“It is evident that Michael Mussi waited for Tanner to leave work at Arch Coal in Philippi and followed him to the Blue and Gray flag park,” the complaint reads.

“Eyewitness accounts stated that two pickup trucks pulled into the parking lot at a high rate of speed and the driver of the dark-colored truck got out at the same time Tanner did and began shooting at him,” according to the complaint. “The eyewitnesses stated that Mussi then flipped his middle finger at Tanner and got into his truck and fled the scene.”

Officials were notified at about 8 a.m. Saturday that a suspicious person was in the Beech Lick area who fit the description of the suspect, a Barbour County Sheriff’s Department press release states.

Deputy Cole Whited of the Barbour Sheriff’s Department “had a brief standoff with the subject, however Deputy Whited was able to de-escalate the situation and take Michael Mussi into custody without further incident,” according to the release.

According to published accounts, police said Mussi pointed a handgun at his chin and threatened to kill himself when Whited approached him. Whited convinced Mussi to put the gun down and he was taken into custody without incident.

“Members from the investigating agency Philippi Police Department, West Virginia State Police, and other deputies from Barbour County Sheriff’s Department arrived moments later to assist,” the release states.