Carole Heagy, a 71-year-old White woman from Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, was killed on December 28, 2024, during a shooting at a residence off Pine Creek Road near the Mount Zion community outside Grantsville, West Virginia. The Calhoun County Emergency Operations Center alerted law enforcement to the shooting at approximately 8:28 that morning. Calhoun County Sheriff Graham Knight reached the property shortly before 9 a.m. and found Heagy and Jodee Tribioli dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Two other people were still alive but wounded: Steve Tribioli, who lived at the Grantsville residence, and Heagy’s husband, Claude Heagy. West Virginia State Police took over the investigation after arriving, while crime-scene personnel began processing the house and later examined the vehicle belonging to the man investigators identified as the suspect.
One of the surviving victims quickly gave investigators a crucial lead.
Claude Heagy, who had been shot in the arm, identified Noah Richard Tribioli as the shooter. According to the criminal complaint described in news reports, investigators alleged that Noah Tribioli entered his father Steve Tribioli’s home with a firearm and began shooting the people inside. Noah Tribioli was Steve’s son, while Jodee Tribioli was described by State Police as his stepmother. After the gunfire, Noah Tribioli left the area, prompting State Police to issue a statewide Be On the Lookout alert for him and his vehicle. Troopers located and apprehended him later that day near Hico in Fayette County, with reporting placing the arrest along U.S. Route 19.
The violence left the two households devastated. Steve Tribioli suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was initially reported in critical condition after being transferred to Charleston Area Medical Center for surgery. Claude Heagy was initially listed in stable condition and was subsequently treated and released. By December 30, Steve had been removed from a ventilator and was able to speak with investigators. State Police said information obtained from him helped investigators better understand what had led to the shooting, but authorities did not publicly disclose a specific motive. Investigators described the Heagys as family friends of the Tribiolis, while other family-related reporting described a familial connection between Carole and Jodee.
Noah Richard Tribioli was arrested in connection with all four shootings. The initial charges included two counts of first-degree murder for the two deaths, two counts of attempted first-degree murder relating to Steve Tribioli and Claude Heagy, two counts of malicious wounding, and two counts of attempting to commit a felony. State Police reported that he was arraigned and remanded to jail without bond. The investigation continued well beyond the immediate aftermath of the shooting, and on August 7, 2025, a Calhoun County magistrate found probable cause in the felony case against him.
The prosecution later moved into Circuit Court. On December 3, 2025, a special Calhoun County grand jury returned a ten-count indictment against Tribioli. The indictment contained two murder counts, one corresponding to Jodee Tribioli’s death and another corresponding to Carole Heagy’s death; two attempted-murder counts involving Steve Tribioli and Claude Heagy; two malicious-assault counts involving the surviving victims; and four counts alleging the use or presentation of a firearm during the commission of a felony. An indictment is an accusation rather than a finding of guilt, and the case still required resolution through plea proceedings or trial.
The case also developed a dispute over how long Tribioli had remained incarcerated before indictment. His defense sought his release or a reduction in bond, arguing that the state had allowed two court terms to pass without securing an indictment and had not timely responded to a defense motion. Prosecutors argued that the subsequent grand-jury indictment cured the issue and maintained that the seriousness of the murder charges weighed against release. In December 2025, Circuit Judge Anita Ashley sided with the prosecution on the bond question and ruled that Tribioli was not entitled to bond, leaving him in custody as the prosecution continued.
When Tribioli appeared in Circuit Court in January 2026 with appointed counsel, he entered a plea of not guilty. Because the case involved a substantial amount of evidence and discovery, the court scheduled a pretrial proceeding for March 5, 2026, and set a trial for April 14, 2026. The online reporting located for this synopsis does not establish a later conviction, acquittal, guilty plea, or completed trial outcome. The latest verifiable court-stage information found therefore leaves Tribioli as an accused and indicted defendant who pleaded not guilty, rather than as someone whose guilt in Carole Heagy’s killing has been established by a reported conviction.
