A Cabell County jury found Amar Richardson guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Rahmel Lundy.

Friday's verdicts are the jury's finding on second-degree murder and the two firearm counts WSAZ named. They are not a first-degree murder conviction. Jan. 4 is a sentencing date, not a sentence. The claim that he feared for his life is the defense argument WCHS reported. It is not what the jury found.

WSAZ reported Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, in a story published at 11:35 a.m. EDT, that a jury reached a verdict in the murder trial of Amar Richardson, according to the Cabell County Circuit Court. The station reported the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder, use or presentment of a firearm, and being a person prohibited from possession of a firearm. It reported he was charged in connection with the shooting death of Rahmel Lundy, and that the shooting happened in the 500 block of 7th Avenue in March of last year. It reported sentencing is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 4, at 9 a.m. The story does not print a year on that date. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding on the counts the station named. Jan. 4 is the date WSAZ says the court is set to sentence him.

WSAZ's Oct. 28 trial story named him Amar Abdu Richardson, 24, of Huntington, and reported he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder last year. It reported the shooting death was on March 20, 2025, in the 500 block of 7th Avenue, and that Rahmel Lundy, 33, of Huntington, died. Amar Richardson and Amar Abdu Richardson are two forms of one name in the station's own stories. March of last year and March 20, 2025, are the same month only if both dates are right. WCHS, in a story updated at 5:47 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, also put him at 24 and Lundy at 33. It reported prosecutors said Lundy was unarmed when he entered a Seventh Avenue apartment in March of last year and was shot in the head. The 500 block of 7th Avenue and an apartment on Seventh Avenue are two ways of placing one scene. WCHS reported the defense claimed Lundy had threatened Richardson, who feared for his life. A charging story and a prosecutor's account of how the shot was fired are not the verdict.

WSAZ reported a jury was selected and opening statements were given Tuesday, the first day of trial. It reported that on Wednesday jurors watched a video of about two hours, and that Richardson took the stand in his own defense. Its Thursday story, updated at 4:45 p.m., reported multiple Huntington police officers and a forensic examiner testified Wednesday. It reported Judge Gregory Howard asked the jury to be back at 9 a.m. Friday, and that deliberations would resume then. WCHS reported closing arguments were Thursday, the fourth day, and that the jury was set to consider deliberating Friday morning. Deliberations already underway, and a jury set to consider starting them, are not the same status. WCHS reported chief deputy prosecuting attorney Glen Conway said, "There wasn't an attack. The victim walked right by him and was shot in the back of the head. There's no clearer case of murder." That sentence is the state's closing argument. WSAZ's verdict story did not print it, and it did not print a time for Friday's decision beyond the 11:35 a.m. publication.

WCHS reported the defense claim as a threat and a fear for his life. Conway's account is that Lundy walked past Richardson and was shot in the back of the head, and that there was no attack. WSAZ reported the jury's finding was second-degree murder, not the first-degree murder count on which he had been charged, plus the two firearm counts the station named. Second-degree and first-degree are not the same result. Friday's guilty verdicts are the jury's finding. Sentencing is still ahead, and a conviction can be appealed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.