A Kanawha County grand jury indicted Eric Richmond in the Nitro Walmart shooting death of Misty Williams.

A circuit indictment is the charging paper a grand jury returns. It is not a conviction. Richmond was already charged with first-degree murder in April, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said. Monday's reporting adds the indictment and two firearms counts, and it says no trial date has been set.

WV MetroNews and WCHS Network reported Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, that a Kanawha County grand jury indicted Eric Richmond, 54, of Charleston, on one count of first-degree murder and two firearms charges. Both outlets reported he is charged in the April 6 shooting death of Misty Williams, 40, of Dunbar, described as his on-again, off-again girlfriend. The outlets did not name the two firearms counts. They reported he remains in jail without bail and will be arraigned in the near future by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Dave Hardy, and that a trial date has not been set. An indictment moves the case into circuit court. It does not pick a sentence.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said on April 13 that its Kanawha Bureau of Investigations was assisting Nitro police with a homicide in the parking lot of the Nitro Marketplace Walmart. The office identified the woman found dead as Misty Rose Williams, 40, a Walmart employee, and the man charged that day as Eric Dewayne Richmond, 54. WV MetroNews and WCHS Network use Eric Richmond. The sheriff's office uses Eric Dewayne Richmond. They are describing the same defendant and the same woman. The sheriff's office said Williams had gone on a break to her vehicle, coworkers found her slumped inside when she did not return, and she was dead of an apparent gunshot wound. WV MetroNews reported investigators said she died of a gunshot wound to the chest, and it quoted Kanawha County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Jeremy Burns, speaking at the time: "I believe they get a 20-minute break and she didn't return, it had been over an hour." The sheriff's office said a review of Walmart surveillance footage identified Richmond, and that he shares children with Williams. Those April statements are how he was first charged. They are not the indictment the grand jury returned in October.

Monday's stories are the new court paper: first-degree murder plus two firearms charges, a hold without bail, and a circuit arraignment that had not yet happened when the outlets published. What the grand jury heard is not in those stories. A trial date is not a date until the court sets one. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.