Virgil Lee Sipple, 63, of Newtown, was arrested by the Mingo County Sheriff’s Department and has been charged with two counts of malicious wounding and four counts of brandishing a weapon.
He’s accused of shooting Bill Mullins, 38, twice in the chest after Mullins somehow got involved in an argument between Virgil Sipple and his brother Eugene Sipple.
Virgil Sipple is currently lodged in the Southwestern Regional Jail at Holden on a $180,000 bond.
Mingo County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy James Smith said that around 11:30 a.m., the call came in of a shooting at Newtown near Red Jacket.
“Eugene Sipple got some guys to come up to his property to haul some scrap metal off,” Chief Smith said. “Virgil Sipple comes down and tells them to get off his property, that they’re on his land, and to leave. Eugene and Virgil had a little altercation, a verbal argument, and, apparently, this Bill Mullins is one of the guys who came up to move the scrap metal, and I don’t know how he got involved in it, if he started arguing with Virgil, too, but, eventually, it got heated enough that Virgil pulled out a gun and shot Bill twice in the chest.”
Chief Smith said Mullins is in stable condition at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington.
“We went and got Virgil and he didn’t give us any trouble,” Chief Smith said.
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