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Huntington mayor joins forces with zombies

Herald-Dispatch photo by Anthony Davis Huntington Mayor Steve Williams get attacked by zombies during Huntington's Giving Creative and Trifecta Production's "Night of the Giving Dead" on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, on 4th Avenue in Huntington.
Herald-Dispatch photo by Anthony Davis
Huntington Mayor Steve Williams get attacked by zombies during Huntington’s Giving Creative and Trifecta Production’s “Night of the Giving Dead” on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, on 4th Avenue in Huntington.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — On Halloween weekend, huge “Walking Dead” fan David McGee will drag a leg down South for the massive “Walker Stalker Con Atlanta,” a celebration of all things zombie.

On Sunday, he got a hometown start as McGee and his best zombie girl, Janet Dooley, joined a couple dozen fellow zombies for a video shoot on 4th Avenue in downtown Huntington that helped raise money and costumes for a kid’s costume drive.

McGee, who spent more than six months and about $10,000 in building an exact replica of the 1976 Triumph Bonneville chopper motorcycle used in “The Walking Dead,” said when he heard about the charity shoot he had to jump in and bring down the bike.

“I love Halloween, and I love a good cause,” McGee said.

Originally, the zombie gathering was to just be a Trifecta Productions’ video shoot. When Chad Midkiff of Trifecta Productions heard that Huntington Mayor Steve Williams was again collecting costumes for kids at the city’s community centers, he knew they had to get on board.

“Basically, we had called a production meeting discussing the upcoming zombie shoot, and just a few days prior I had heard a radio spot where the mayor was rallying to collect costumes for kids, and we thought it would be a shame to have all of these people investing all of this money and time into their zombie look while the mayor and community centers are working to provide a better Halloween for the kids. So Joe  (Murphy) of Trifecta and I got talking and said, ‘Let’s mesh the two…

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