Marion County woman charged in murder case

FAIRMONT, W.Va.–A Marion County woman has been charged after a man’s body was found in a Fairmont home.

Court documents indicate that Shekea Fox, 33, of Fairmont, has been charged with being an accessory after the fact to a first-degree murder.

On Oct. 23, police found the body of Sean Gardiner in the living room of a Fairmont house  with “significant” injuries that appeared to have caused his death.

According to the complaint there was a large amount of blood in the living room, entry way and entrances to the bedrooms, with blood splatter on the walls and ceilings that police said were not consistent with an accidental injury.

The complaint said that teeth were a found on the living room floor and an imprint of a cell phone was found in blood on a couch.

Fox was pulled over during a traffic stop and police said that they found a cell phone covered in blood matching the imprint left on the couch.