David Wayne Hazelwood, a 53-year-old man from Princeton, West Virginia, died on September 9, 2016. Online records independently identify a David Wayne Hazelwood associated with Princeton and with construction and contracting work, including a Virginia general-contractor license that later became inactive.
The available online material outside the excluded Crime Solvers Central website is notably sparse concerning the circumstances of Hazelwood's death.
Searches of contemporary reporting, obituary indexes, funeral-home material, court-related sources, and other publicly accessible records did not produce reliable reporting describing his death as a homicide, shooting, stabbing, assault, or other criminally caused death. Likewise, no credible online source located in the search identified a crime scene, alleged motive, weapon, confrontation, or investigation connecting another person to Hazelwood's death. The records that could be independently located primarily establish his connection to Princeton and his work in the building and contracting trades rather than documenting a violent-crime case.
No arrest connected to David Hazelwood's September 9, 2016 death could be verified from the available online sources. No person was identified in reliable reporting as a suspect, and searches did not uncover an arrest warrant, criminal complaint, indictment, murder charge, manslaughter charge, trial, guilty plea, conviction, or sentence arising from his death. Searches for Hazelwood's name alongside Mercer County, Princeton, homicide, murder, suspect, arrest, and related court terminology produced unrelated cases involving other people with the Hazelwood surname rather than a prosecution concerning David Hazelwood. Consequently, there is no supported basis in the located online record for naming anyone as his killer or suggesting that a particular person was arrested for causing his death.
The clearest picture that can be reconstructed from permissible online sources is therefore limited: Hazelwood was associated with Princeton and worked in construction, with contractor listings recording licenses connected to his name and the Princeton area. His death occurred on September 9, 2016, but the searchable independent record does not reveal evidence of a criminal investigation that resulted in an identified suspect or prosecution. In particular, widely indexed court and news searches do not show the sequence normally associated with a solved homicide—an arrest, formal charges, grand-jury action, trial proceedings, plea, conviction, or sentencing. Any portrayal of Hazelwood's death as a confirmed homicide with a known perpetrator would go beyond what the permissible online sources presently substantiate.
