A Maryland man accused in a Charleston homicide was denied bond Monday in Kanawha County court. Thirty-four-year-old Joshua Scales of Hyattsville had requested home confinement, but the judge rejected it.
Scales is charged with murdering 34-year-old Ethan Samuel Chic-Colbert, the St. Albans man convicted in a high-profile 2012 child-death case. Chic-Colbert served time after an 11-year-old boy was killed on I-77 while trying to get help for his mother during an assault.
Chic-Colbert was fatally shot in January along Elizabeth Street in Charleston. Scales is scheduled for trial on February 23, 2026.