ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, Va. – A Roanoke man has been indicted on charges related to a 2019 explosion that left four people dead.

A special grand jury convened last week and returned indictments against Phillip Ray Westmoreland, who was arrested Friday on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for deaths caused by an explosion at the South River Market in Rockbridge County on May 10, 2019.

Westmoreland was driving a fuel truck and had made a delivery to the convenience market about an hour prior to the blast. The store’s owner, two employees and a customer died in the explosion.

Virginia State Police investigated but have not said what caused the blast.

Westmoreland was arrested in Roanoke on Friday and is now being held at the Rockbridge Regional Jail.

The grand jury proceeding had been delayed because of COVID restrictions.