Eddie Daivon Morgan
Introduction
Eddie Daivon Morgan, known on the street as “Gutta,” is a 45-year-old from Mount Hope, West Virginia whose criminal record spans manslaughter, escape, and a shooting that wounded a man in the arm — and whose firearms kept finding him. On November 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger sentenced Morgan to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The federal case arose from a November 2022 traffic stop in which officers, executing an arrest warrant for a malicious wounding, found Morgan lying in the back seat of a vehicle with two loaded pistols on him.
Background Information
The traffic stop that generated the federal charge was itself the tail end of a shooting. On November 18, 2022, Morgan was involved in a confrontation with another individual at a Fayette County residence; the verbal altercation escalated when Morgan threatened to “shoot the place up,” and he later fired two rounds from a .380-caliber pistol, wounding the other individual in the arm. That incident produced the malicious wounding warrant. Twelve days later, on November 30, 2022, officers watching for Morgan observed him enter a vehicle in Fayette County, stopped it, and found him lying in the back seat. Officers seized a loaded Glock model 42 .380-caliber pistol and a loaded SCCY 9mm pistol from Morgan’s person.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted and sentenced. Eddie Daivon Morgan pleaded guilty in state court to attempted second-degree murder and related counts for the November 2022 shooting, and was sentenced federally to 10 years for possessing two loaded pistols as a felon.
The state case resolved first. On March 28, 2024, Morgan pleaded guilty in Fayette County Circuit Court to attempted second-degree murder, malicious assault, wanton endangerment involving a firearm, and use or presentation of a firearm during the commission of a felony — the counts stemming from the November 18, 2022 confrontation and shooting. The federal firearms case ran in parallel: Morgan knew he was prohibited from possessing firearms because of a prior felony conviction, a January 24, 2013 federal conviction in the Southern District of West Virginia for use of a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking offense. The two loaded pistols seized during the November 30, 2022 stop became the basis of the federal felon-in-possession count.
Morgan’s criminal history, as cataloged in the sentencing announcement, is long even by the standards of repeat offenders: prior convictions for second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, felony escape, wanton endangerment with a firearm, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, battery, and domestic battery. United States Attorney Moore Capito announced the sentence, crediting the investigative work of the ATF and the Oak Hill Police Department. Judge Berger imposed the 10-year term plus three years of supervised release, and Assistant U.S. Attorney JC MacCallum prosecuted the case.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The public record of the case is the government’s announcement, and its architecture is the pattern: a shooting and its state-court guilty pleas, followed by a federal firearms conviction layered on top. The consequences are concrete on both tracks. In state court, Morgan’s March 2024 pleas to attempted second-degree murder, malicious assault, wanton endangerment, and firearm use stand as convictions for the wounding of the other individual. In federal court, the 10-year sentence punishes the possession itself — the loaded Glock 42 and loaded SCCY 9mm found on him during a stop for a warrant he was already wanted on. The case is documented as Case No. 2:23-cr-92 in the Southern District of West Virginia, part of the Justice Department’s Operation Take Back America and Project Safe Neighborhoods initiatives.
Current Status
Morgan is a sentenced federal inmate. Judge Berger imposed the 10-year term on November 5, 2026, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The announcement does not describe the length of the state sentence imposed after his March 2024 pleas, any appeal in either case, or any additional charges. At 45, with a criminal history that includes a manslaughter conviction and a federal drug-facility felony from 2013, Morgan now holds convictions across three decades — the 2013 communication-facility felony, the 2022 shooting, and the 2022 firearms possession that produced the 2026 federal sentence.
Impact on Their Career/Life
There is no lawful career in Morgan’s record to interrupt; the documented pattern is recidivism across state and federal systems. The federal sentence means Morgan, at 45, will be in his mid-fifties when the prison term ends, with supervised release to follow and a state sentence for the shooting to account for as well. For Fayette County, the case documented the full lifecycle of a malicious-wounding warrant: a victim wounded in the arm, a suspect found hiding in a vehicle with two loaded pistols, state convictions by plea, and a federal gun sentence. For Morgan, the “Gutta” street identity now sits on a record that includes attempted second-degree murder, manslaughter, and escape — and a federal judge’s 10-year answer to the pistols he carried while wanted.
Sources
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of West Virginia, “Fayette County Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Federal Gun Crime,” November 2026. source