Brother of missing Armstrong County man found shot, killed speaks out

Friends and family of David Kimberly looked for him for nearly 20 days after he had last been seen at his home at the end of Reefer Hollow Road.

Police found his body in a remote area of Jefferson County on Saturday.

“As soon as I had seen the person, I knew it wasn’t good news,” David Kimberly’s brother, Marc Kimberly, told Channel 11′s Andrew Havranek.

Marc Kimberly said a friend knocked on his door to tell him the body of his brother had been found.

He had been missing since Sept. 23.

“Finally,” Marc Kimberly said. “Kind of sad, kinda glad, kinda mad that it took as long as it did.”

He first learned his brother was missing when a friend told him he wasn’t able to get ahold of him. He called his brother and didn’t get an answer. A few hours later, he called again. No answer.

“I was like, ‘Baby, come on. We’re going to do a welfare check,’” Marc Kimberly recalled saying to his wife.

He and his wife went to his brother’s house on Reefer Hollow Road. There, he learned David Kimberly and his wife got into an argument. He said David’s wife said she wanted a divorce, so David packed some things and left six days prior.

“Something’s wrong,” Marc Kimberly said. “If you got in an argument with your better half, who would you go to? Family. Friends that would be close to you.”

They reported him missing to police.

Volunteers from all over started to help look.

On Saturday, police found David Kimberly’s van in the woods about 100 yards from his home.

Then police say his stepson, Cody Weiland, admitted to shooting him and moving his body.

Police found David Kimberly’s body in a remote area of Jefferson County.

Marc Kimberly and his family want justice.

“That’s the biggest thing, for justice to be dealt with,” he said.

Marc Kimberly said the hardest thing was not knowing where his brother was. Now that they’ve found his body, it’s a bit of relief. He’s thankful for the outpouring of support and help during the search.

He said he’ll never stop thinking about his brother.

“As long as you’re thinking about them they’re not gone,” he said. “It’s when you stop thinking about them that they are gone.”

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