Shooting death under investigation in downtown Charleston By April 16, 2021 - 8:11 am CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An incident in front of the Kanawha County Courthouse results in a man’s death and a disruption of the morning rush hour in downtown Charleston. Sgt. Brian Humphreys of the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department said a man shot himself just after 7 a.m. Friday while seated on a bench in front of the courthouse on busy Virginia Street downtown. “Somebody in the Judicial Annex heard a gunshot and went outside finding this man sitting on a bench with an injury to his head. It was later determined it was a self inflicted gunshot wound. They found the pistol very near him,” he explained.