Dennis Claude Stanley

Male, White

Date of the incident: 9/10/2016

Place of the incident:

Montcalm, Mercer, WV
Lorton Lick Road

Dispatchers got a call about an armed man acting erratically in the road. Mercer County Deputies and West Virginia State Police responded near Route 71 in Montcalm. They found Dennis Claude Stanley in the roadway. According to police, Stanley refused several verbal commands to show his hands. He then tried to pull a gun from his pants. Stanley was shot and killed by deputies. Later, police determined that the gun was a handgun replica.

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