UPDATE 9/15/17 @ 4:30 p.m.

WINFIELD, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A man convicted for the shooting death of another man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.

Jacob Smailes was found guilty in July of voluntary manslaughter in the October 2014 death of Troy Cobb, who was 20. The two men were roommates at the time and got into an argument that led to the shooting.

The shooting happened at a mobile home park in Bancroft.

UPDATE 7/27/17 @ 9:10 p.m.

WINFIELD, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A jury found a man guilty Thursday of voluntary manslaughter for the shooting death of a man in Putnam County in October 2014.

Jacob Smailes was charged with first-degree murder, but the jury convicted him of the lesser charge.

Smailes was roommates with the victim, Troy Cobb, in Bancroft.

Cobb was 20 years old at the time.

The pair got into an argument that ended in Cobb's death.

Smailes said it was an accident from the beginning, but another witness told deputies that the pair got into an argument that ended with Smailes holding a gun to the victim's head.

Smailes will be sentenced in September. He faces anywhere from three to 15 years in jail.

ORIGINAL STORY 10/28/14

BANCROFT, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- One man is dead after deputies say an argument between roommates escalated in a deadly shooting.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office is investigating the murder. It was reported about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Old Ferry Trailer Park in Bancroft -- initially as an accidental shooting.

Neighbor Tiffany Loudermilk says she heard someone outside her trailer screaming. When she asked the man what was wrong, he told her he accidentally shot his roommate. That's when she ran inside the trailer and tried to help.

"I ran in the house, and there was just nothing that could be done," Loudermilk said. "I tried to apply compression, but the wound was in the eye so I don't think I could have helped him."

The victim was 20-year-old Troy Cobb. Loudermilk said she stayed with him until he died.

"I felt the need to sit there and tell him he wasn't alone," she said. "Because no one wants to pass out of this world alone."

Deputies say the shooter, Jacob Smailes, made the initial 911 call, saying he accidentally shot his roommate. Loudermilk said she firmly believes that.

"He didn't mean to. He was just broken completely when he told me what had happened," Loudermilk said.

Yet, after deputies questioned Smailes and another man who was there, they say it was no accident. The witness told deputies the two men had gotten into an argument that ended with the gunshot to Cobb's head.

Smailes, who was charged with first-degree murder, is being held at the Western Regional Jail without bond.

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