Homicide

3 crime scenes, 5 deaths: West Virginia officials try to piece together shooting spree events

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Westover Police vehicles are parked outside Doug's Towing in Westover, W.V.,, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, after three separate shootings left four people dead on Monday. State police said they're seeking one suspect in all the shootings. Monongalia County 911 director Mike Wolfe said police are seeking Jody Lee Hunt, 39, of Westover. Police also are searching for a 2011 Ford F-150 extended cab truck. (AP Photo/Ben Queen) (The Associated Press)

A memorial sign for Doug Brady, owner of Doug's Towing, is placed outside the towing company in Westover, W.V., Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Police say towing business owner Jody Lee Hunt fatally shot four people, including Brady, and another who filed a domestic violence case against him, and then himself Monday, but officials have yet to piece together clues as to why he went on the spree. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise) (The Associated Press)

Police say they'll try to piece together information from three crimes scenes to determine how and why a West Virginia man fatally shot four people, sending officials on an hours-long manhunt, before killing himself.

Thirty-nine-year-old Jody Lee Hunt, who owns a Morgantown towing company, was wanted in the deaths of four people in the three incidents. Police released few details other than a photo and the make and model of his truck as they sought him for much of Monday. In the evening, they said he was found dead in his vehicle in the woods.

Two of the victims were shot in the Westover area, outside Morgantown, and another in the Cheat Lake area in Monongalia County. Police say that on Tuesday, investigators will sit down to work out the details of what happened.