Jury deliberations continue in Charleston double murder trial

Jury deliberations continue in Charleston double murder trial

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - The fate of a man accused of killing his girlfriend's mother and teen brother is now in a Kanawha County jury's hands. The jury began deliberations for the trial of Markus Guy Thursday. They went home for the night shortly after 5 p.m., and will reconvene at 8:45 a.m. Friday. Guy was indicted in July on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse causing death in the murders of 39-year-old Alisha Brooke Carnefix and he…

Jury deliberations underway in Kanawha County double murder trial

Markus Guy on trial.

Markus Guy takes witness stand for his defense in St. Albans double-homicide trial

Markus Deron Guy, 32, took the witness stand in his own defense Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the second day of his trial for killing Alisha Brooke Carnefix, 39, and Koda Bryson Jarrett, 14, at a St. Albans residence last February. Guy and his attorneys have maintained he was acting in self defense after Carnefix jumped on his back and began to choke him. The state has the burden to prove that Guy willfully and intentionally, with malice, killed th…

Closing arguments get underway in Kanawha County double murder trial

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man charged in a Kanawha County double murder case says it was self-defense, but evidence presented by a number of expert witnesses say otherwise. Closing arguments got underway in the fourth day of trial for Markus Guy, 32, of Charleston who faces two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of…