MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – According to a criminal complaint, a 43-year-old Westover man faces wanton endangerment involving a firearm and a weapons charge after waving a gun in a convenience store parking lot after allegedly being “ripped off” while trying to purchase crack cocaine.
Witnesses told police Corey Robert Marable was brandishing a black firearm in the parking lot near the gas pumps at the at the intersection of Van Voorhis and Chestnut Ridge Roads and fled in an SUV. Police did recover the handgun they believe Marable threw in the parking lot.
Marable returned the scene highly agitated and told police he had come to the gas station to buy crack and was ripped off.
Witness accounts say Marable back into a vehicle, pulled out a firearm and began waving it at people. Reports indicate two children were on the scene as well.
Marable’s felony criminal record goes back to 1998.