Arrest made in weekend murder

EAST LYNN -- Police in Wayne County have made an arrest in a weekend murder.
According to authorities, Brad Stapleton, 31, of East Lynn, was killed at his home on Bartram Fork Road around 2 a.m. Saturday. Roy Ellison Steele, 26, was arrested and charged with murder.

The two men, along with the victim’s wife, were drinking at the victim’s home. According to police reports, Stapleton left, then came back and the two men began to fight which progressed outside the home.

The victim’s wife told Detective Maynard of the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, that Steele hit her husband in the head with a crowbar.

Stapleton was pronounced dead at the scene. Steele was later arrested in his home.