<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">By Bobby Bordelon</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">After the killing of James Alvis on Saturday, November 7, in Rupert, Jonathan Cole McClung has been arrested and is being held in Southern Regional Jail.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">According to the criminal complaint filed with the Greenbrier County Magistrate Court by Senior Trooper B.J. Borsman, the incident arose due to McClung's belief his wife was cheating on him with Alvis. The resulting attack led to Alvis’s death.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">On Saturday, McClung left his “residence in Charmco in an attempt to locate” his wife, suspecting “she was cheating on him.”</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">McClung was joined by another individual who the Mountain Messenger is declining to identify due to their age. </span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The two allegedly pulled into a shop in Rupert and upon seeing James Avlis, who the pair “believed to be involved in an affair” with Ms. McClung, attacked him.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Based on multiple eyewitnesses, Jonathan … screamed ‘kill that mother f*****’ as they exited the vehicle,” reads the complaint. “Mr. McClung ... attacked Mr. Alvis and according to witnesses, continued to beat Mr. Alvis as he fell to the ground until they were pulled off of him by surrounding individuals.”</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The complaint also explains that during the statement given to police, both McClung and the other individual “stated they attacked Mr. Alvis by punching him numerous times.”</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Alvis was transported to Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and was later pronounced dead as a result of the attack. </span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">McClung has been charged with first degree murder and felony conspiracy as a result of the attack.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">As of Monday, September 9, McClung was being held in Southern Regional Jail in Beckley.</span></span></span>
