A 73-year-old man accused of shooting and killing his stepdaughter is among the 107 indictments returned by the September term of the Monongalia County grand jury.
The grand jury also indicted a former Morgantown City Council candidate on two election fraud charges and a man accused of attempting to kidnap a baby from the mother’s arms at an area hospital.
An indictment is a required step in the prosecution of felonies and is not proof of guilt.
Donald R. Davis, 73 was indicted for second-degree murder for allegedly killing Tamatha Lynn Pillo.
Pillo, 51, was in a “domestic dispute” with her stepfather, Davis, when he shot her once in the chest with a .380 pistol, Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer previously said.
The incident happened at Babbling Brook Estates, off of Tyrone Road, on April 29.
Davis was arrested and charged with involuntarily manslaughter in May.
Timothy Aaron Metz, 44, was indicted for filing a false or fraudulent election return, certificate of nomination, and, filing a false or fraudulent election return, fraudulent signatures.
It was previously reported an investigator with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office found 21 of the 92 signatures on Metz’s nominating petition fraudulent.
A part-time Morgantown city elections secretary recognized a dead woman’s name on Metz’s petition, a criminal complaint said.
In March, Metz withdrew from the city council election and admitted he “cut corners” in collecting signatures.
Felix Rayes Galeas, 31, was indicted for attempted kidnapping.
It was previously reported that shortly after midnight on June 27, Galeas tried to take a 1-year-old from his mother in the J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital emergency room.
The child was not harmed and Galeas did not know the child, a Morgantown spokesperson said.
The complete list of indictments will be in a future edition of The Dominion Post.
