Dalton Chester Weaver, a 30-year-old White man from Winchester, Virginia, died on September 23, 2025, after a violent shooting incident in Bunker Hill, West Virginia. Shortly after noon, at approximately 12:06 p.m., deputies from the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division and Criminal Investigative Division were sent to the Quarry Road area after someone reported suspicious circumstances. When deputies arrived, they found a red Chevrolet Silverado containing three deceased people.
Weaver was identified as one of the victims, along with Evie Omps and Darion Clevenger, both also residents of Winchester.
As detectives reconstructed what happened inside the pickup, the preliminary evidence indicated that an altercation had occurred among the occupants before gunfire erupted. All three people in the Silverado sustained fatal gunshot wounds. Investigators also determined that one of the three appeared to have suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office did not publicly identify which person had that wound. Consequently, the available reporting does not establish whether Weaver fired any of the shots, who shot him, or exactly how the gunfire unfolded during the confrontation. Authorities likewise did not publicly identify a motive or provide a detailed account of what caused the disagreement inside the truck to escalate into deadly violence.
The circumstances of the scene led investigators to publicly emphasize that they were not searching for an unidentified gunman who had escaped. The sheriff’s office said there were no outstanding suspects and no continuing threat to the community, indicating that investigators believed the fatal violence was confined to the people who had been inside the Silverado. The case nevertheless remained under investigation, with authorities continuing to gather evidence and asking anyone with information to contact the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office and speak with Deputy Jenkins. Initial reporting also indicated that autopsies were pending through the West Virginia State Medical Examiner’s Office.
No arrest was announced in connection with Weaver’s death in the reporting located, and authorities did not publicly name any surviving suspect. There also were no reported criminal charges, prosecutions, trials, or convictions arising from the deaths in the available follow-up coverage. Rather than describing the incident as a case involving a fugitive killer, investigators consistently characterized it as an altercation inside the vehicle in which all three occupants were found dead afterward. The sheriff’s office’s statement that there were no outstanding suspects is particularly significant: it meant that, based on the evidence then available to investigators, police were not warning the public about or actively seeking another person believed to have fled the scene.
Away from the circumstances of his death, Weaver’s obituary described a life rooted in Winchester. Born there on September 27, 1994, to Chester “Butch” Weaver and Lisa Weaver, he worked as a service technician at his family business, Gills Heating & AC. He had completed the requirements necessary to take the state examination for a master HVAC license. His family remembered his enthusiasm for fishing and hiking, his enjoyment of working on vintage pickup trucks—including a 1976 Chevrolet he called “Old Red”—and his support for Washington’s NFL team. He was also remembered for making people laugh and for his distinctive smile. Following his death, visitation and memorial services were held in the Winchester area, with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
The publicly reported evidence therefore leaves important questions unanswered. Weaver was one of three people who died from gunfire during an apparent confrontation inside the Silverado, and investigators believed one of those deaths resulted from a self-inflicted wound, but they did not publicly say whose wound it was or assign responsibility for each of the other fatal shots. The available reporting contains no subsequent announcement identifying a suspect in Weaver’s death, no arrest, and no court case establishing a definitive sequence of events. What authorities did make clear was that they considered the violence isolated to the occupants of the truck and did not believe an armed suspect remained at large after the three bodies were discovered on Quarry Road.
