WHEELING, W.Va. – Wheeling Police have charged a Fairmont, West Virginia man with murder in a 2023 malicious assault case that resulted in the death of the victim.
On July 28, 2023, police were called to the Fink Street area on the southern end of Wheeling Island for a woman who was found unconscious in a yard with physical injuries.
The woman, later identified as 49-year-old Christine Lynn King of Wheeling, was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., at the time of the incident to be medically treated but later died from her injuries at Wheeling Hospital on Oct. 20, 2023.
The West Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy of King, who, in October of 2024, ruled the manner of death as a homicide as a result of blunt force trauma.
After conducting multiple interviews, gathering information from the crime scene and forensic evidence, detectives charged 37-year-old Dennis Terrell Evans on May 1, 2025, with one count of murder.
Evans has been incarcerated since September 2023 after being arrested and later convicted on an unrelated felony crime (strangulation). He is serving a three-year prison sentence in Saint Mary’s Correctional Center and Jail, located in Pleasants County, W.Va.
