MERCER COUNTY, WV -
A Mercer County man was airlifted to a Tennessee hospital last night after being beaten and suffering severe lacerations to his head. On Sunday he spoke exclusively with 59 News and he believes law enforcement got the story all wrong. It all happened in a mobile home park in the Kegley area of Mercer County.
West Virginia State Police responded to a domestic dispute at 8 p.m. Saturday night. This is what happened according to Trooper L. F. Lee.
"We apprehended the people in the domestic, there was 2 people. One was also apprehended for discharging a weapon 500 feet within a dwelling," said Lee.
59 News sat down with the victim, Darrell Thompson, and the man that was questioned for discharging a firearm, Thompson's son-in-law, Jacob Wood. The dispute started when Thompson went looking for his dog, Pepper.
"I heard two shots. I shined the lights and I thought I saw the dog but it wasn't him. My sisters husband and her son and Kevin Wright and someone else jumped me, cyclopsed me, busted my head, broke my arm and doctors said it would have killed me had I not thrown my arm up," Thompson said.
Woods and Thompson tell 59 News they think Woods' questioning is unjustified.
"I was just there to protect him. Whenever he told me to run and then I look back and 4 people are on him, beating him with ball bats and two by fours. I shot my pistol in the air to break them off of him. Then they got me and are charging me with discharging a firearm within 500 foot of a dwelling," said Jacob Woods.
"Only family I got was him and he did the right thing. I mean he might be in the wrong with shooting the gun so close but he did it to help me, that's why he did it," explained Thompson.
The other two men are being held in Bluefield Regional Jail on domestic dispute charges. Wood was questioned with brandishing and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling.
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