McCormick v. West Virginia Department of Public Safety

PER CURIAM:1

This case arises from the July, 1991 murder of Alicia McCormick, a Charleston, West Virginia social worker. Ms. McCormick was stabbed to death in her apartment by Harold D. Gunnoe (“Gunnoe”), an inmate at the Charleston Work Release Center (“CWRC”), operated by the appellee West Virginia Department of Public Safety, Division of Corrections (“DOC”), a state agency. At the time of Ms. McCormick’s murder, she was living in an apartment building owned by the appellee, Donald Smith (“Smith”).

On July 16, 1993, the appellant Robert McCormick, as administrator of Alicia McCormick’s…