A criminal complaint filed by Monongalia County Sheriff’s Detective Jonathan Friend reveals the victim in an alleged Nov. 15 murder was stabbed to death.
Deputies initially responded to a report of a car accident at the intersection of Luckey Lane and Green Bag Road. There, they found the body of Jamey Corbin, 47, of Fairmont.
Investigators said evidence at the scene led them to believe Corbin was not killed by the car crash.
The complaint indicates he was stabbed multiple times in the chest, neck and torso.
The criminal complaint says the lack of blood on the passenger seat led them to believe someone else had been sitting there when Corbin was killed.
Detectives went to Corbin’s Fairmont home and told his mother of his death. According to the complaint, it was Corbin’s mother who gave officers the suspect’s name: Chance Williams. She said her son had a “tumultuous relationship” with Williams, adding that Williams had beat up Corbin previously.
Deputies then went to Williams’ known residence. They found blood on the front door and talked to Williams’ mother, who told them her son said “he killed Jamey.” She also said Williams had a knife “that he was scaring the family with early” that morning.
Searching the home, detectives found bloody clothes, shoes and a knife they believe was the murder weapon, according to the complaint.
Williams, 23, of Morgantown, was on the run for 10 days.
U.S Marshals arrested him for first-degree murder Nov. 25. They found him on White Avenue in Morgantown, in the area they knew Williams to have been recently.
Williams is scheduled to appear before Monongalia County Magistrate Jim Nabors for a preliminary hearing Monday.
Williams is being held in the North Central Regional Jail without bail.
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