Luke Baber Kills Marshall Bailey: West Virginia Trooper Dead, Two Others Injured After Gunfire With Reckless Driver

This is like the 4Th story this month where the suspect somehow has access to a gun AFTER they've been put in the car. Usually they kill themselves. I wonder if Baber was cuffed behind his back to? But then again, I'm uncouth enough to wonder if the cops shot each other. Maybe one went rogue and was going to shoot Baber and the other cop interceded, and in the mean time Baber takes off.
So who the heck opened the door for him, to be able to grab the dead cops gun? You can't open the backdoor from the inside, on regular cop car, but maybe a State patrol car is different. And last but not least, how on earth, did the tow truck driver get hurt? The last thing I read, is that they were still waiting on him

A gunman who fatally shot a West Virginia State Trooper and wounded another after they took him into custody for reckless driving is dead following a pair of shootings that left two dead and three injured, according to authorities.

Police say that Luke Baber used a weapon he had on his person at the time of his arrest to shoot and kill trooper Marshall Bailey from the rear of a police cruiser, WSAZ reports.

Bailey, 42, and his partner, Eric Workman, stopped Baber at approximately 10:00 p.m. Tuesday night when they noticed the suspect driving erratically near the Wallback park-and-ride off Interstate 79 in Clay County.

The troopers arrested Baber and placed him in the police car. As they waited for a tow truck to collect Baber's vehicle, the suspect opened fire on the officers using his own 9mm weapon, WSAZ reports. He then used Bailey's weapon to critically wound Workman.

Following the shootout, Baber fled the scene.

"The suspect traveled a short distance before