Traffic stop leads to shooting death

LEWISBURG, W.Va. -- A sheriff's deputy pulled over a double-homicide suspect during a traffic stop and was shot in the chest -- but still managed to chase the gunman while relaying information to police.\nJohn Richard Mayhew Jr., 35, was captured Saturday night, but not before he fatally shot his 18-year-old daughter, Christina McKibben, and turned the gun on himself, police said.\nMayhew had been on the run since late Thursday. Police in Ohio said he had shot and killed a former wife and her fiance, then took his daughter hostage.\nIn West Virginia's Greenbrier County on Saturday, Deputy Nathan Hershman stopped Mayhew's car for not displaying a motor vehicle inspection sticker.\nDuring the stop, Mayhew shot Hershman in the left arm with a .25-caliber handgun, and the bullet lodged in Hershman's chest, collapsing a lung, State Police Sgt. Jay Powers said Sunday.\nHershman returned fire as Mayhew sped away, and pursued the gunman while giving information to his communications center before being overcome by his injury. Hershman was hospitalized in fair condition Sunday.\nMayhew unsuccessfully tried to carjack another vehicle, hit a state police cruiser and sped past a barricade before police disabled his vehicle in Lewisburg.\nPolice said they believe Mayhew shot his daughter and himself as officers were yelling for him to exit the car. "We couldn't hear the gunshots because a lot of stuff was going on," Powers said.\nMayhew was in serious condition with a chest wound at a Virginia hospital, but was expected to survive. His daughter died Saturday night at a West Virginia hospital.\nOn Thursday, Tammy McKibben Aspell, 34, and Frank Rigsby, 39, were shot to death in the home they shared with the woman's four children in Columbus, Ohio. The other three children are with their biological father, Columbus police Sgt. Dana Norman said.\nMayhew was charged with two counts of aggravated murder and kidnapping in those slayings, Columbus homicide Detective Kathie Justice said.\nCharges in West Virginia were pending.\nMayhew served an eight-year prison term for kidnapping and aggravated burglary in a 1992 incident involving another former wife, court records in Ohio show. Prosecutors said he broke into the woman's home and forced her into a car at gunpoint, freeing her four hours later when she promised to rekindle the romance.