CRIME 4 are killed day after prom

Nine people have been brought in for questioning, but no motive has been identified.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Police questioned several people and searched for clues Monday in the shooting deaths of four teenagers on the morning after the prom.
The teenagers, including one from Ohio, were killed early Sunday in the front yard of the apartment house where one of the victims lived. Police said they did not know the motive.
No immediate arrests were made, but nine people were brought in for questioning, Capt. Steve Hall said.
The victims were Dante Ward, 19, who lived in the apartment building; Eddrick Clark, 18, of South Point, Ohio; Michael Dillon, 17, of Huntington; and Megan Poston, 16.
Poston, of Barboursville, was Dillon's date to his high school prom Saturday night, but school officials said they didn't stay for a lock-in after the dance. Authorities have not determined whether the two other victims attended the prom.
The shooting
A neighbor said he and his daughter were awakened by gunshots and a girl pleading for her life.
"There was a burst of gunfire, and then there was a small pause, and that's when I heard the girl say, 'Please don't kill me, I'm sorry,'" Michael Thomas said. "And I heard two more gunshots."
Thomas added: "You send your kids to the prom and you just hope they don't drink and drive. You'd never expect they're going to get murdered in cold blood."
Dillon's father, Garry Dillon, said he had no idea why his son and Poston were at Ward's house. "I just hope the police get the monster that did this to those babies," he said.
On Monday, friends and family placed flowers at the location where each teen had been shot. Family members at Ward's apartment refused to comment on the shootings.
Ward was a 2003 Huntington High School graduate, while Dillon was a junior. Poston was a junior at Cabell-Midland High School.
Clark went to school in South Point, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Huntington. George York, principal of South Point High School, called Clark "a wonderful guy" who moved from Cincinnati this year and was to have graduated next Sunday.
"He wanted to be a recording artist. He loved rap music," York said.