ST. LOUIS – Prosecutors have charged a third person in connection with a fatal shooting earlier this year near a gas station in St. Louis City’s Fairground neighborhood.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened on Jan. 15 in the 3500 block of Harper Street.
Police said Deandre Pickens was gunned down at that location and his car had been stolen. Pickens was 22.
Surveillance video from the gas station caught the fatal shooting at it happened.
Police said Pickens parked a Nissan in an alley off North Grand Boulevard. JVonta K. Johnson, 24, was in the back seat.
Two people, Christopher A. Taylor, 18, and an unidentified juvenile, approached the car. One of them reached into Pickens’ car through the passenger window.
Pickens attempted to leave the car and was shot, police said. He ran off and collapsed a short distance away.
Police said Johnson got into the driver’s seat of Pickens’ car and left. Taylor and the juvenile fled in an Infiniti. Surveillance video showed both the stolen Nissan and Infiniti meeting at the intersection of Harper and Garrison a short time later. Johnson could be seen handing a firearm from the Nissan to one of other suspects.
Taylor was arrested on Feb. 10 and the juvenile a short time later.
Johnson was arrested on March 12.
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Johnson with first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm, and two counts of armed criminal action. Johnson remains jailed without bond. He has a detention hearing scheduled for March 20 and a preliminary hearing slated for April 14.
Taylor faces the same charges as Johnson.
The juvenile suspect, a 16-year-old, was charged in juvenile court with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery.