CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — A 38-year-old Salem man on Thursday was convicted of felony murder, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in the Feb. 21, 2024, homicide of a 37-year-old Clarksburg man.

The jury of eight women and four men took just 1 1/2 hours to convict Dennis Allen High. Judge D. Andrew McMunn ordered Deputy Chief Probation Officer Janis Leckenbush to perform a presentence investigation, and the court set sentencing at 11 a.m. Sept. 25. High was convicted as a principal in the second degree.

The suspected shooter, Kameron Darnell Griffin, 24, of Akron, Ohio, is awaiting trial in October on charges of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and two gun charges. Alleged co-conspirator Taneil Chevalier Thompson, 18, also of the Akron area, was a juvenile at the t

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