A suspected serial killer already charged in six killings within the Kansas Metropolis and St.
Louis areas has been charged with first-degree homicide in a seventh demise KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A suspected serial killer already charged in six killings within the Kansas Metropolis and St.
Louis areas has been charged with first-degree homicide in a seventh demise.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker introduced the brand new homicide cost Friday towards Perez Deshay Reed.
Baker additionally charged Reed with one rely of armed legal motion and two counts of fraud involving a credit score or debit gadget.
The newest expenses towards the 26-year-old Reed, who lived within the St.
Louis space, stem from the November 2021 taking pictures demise of Stephon D.
Johnson, of Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
The prosecutor's workplace didn't present Johnson's age.
Brian Horneyer, an assistant Missouri public defender in St.
Louis representing Reed didn't instantly return messages searching for remark left Saturday on his workplace cellphone and cellphone.
When legislation enforcement officers arrested Reed in close by Independence on warrants from St.
Louis County, they discovered a key on him that match a deadbolt lock at Johnson's residence, Baker's workplace mentioned, citing courtroom paperwork.
Testing indicated DNA collected from an empty cigarillo package deal present in Johnson's residence was linked to Reed, Baker's workplace mentioned.
Baker's workplace mentioned the bullet discovered inside Johnson was fired from the gun that Reed had on him when he was arrested.
Witnesses additionally instructed police {that a} man who had been a visitor of Johnson's was the “serial killer” from St.
Louis whom that they had seen on the information.
They recognized him by a particular, crescent moon-shaped tattoo on his brow.
Reed stays in custody in St.
Louis, and Baker's workplace is asking that he be held on the brand new expenses with no bond.
Reed is charged in the St.
Louis County killings of 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13, 2021, and 40-year-old Lester Robinson on Sept. 26.
He is also charged within the killings in St.
Louis of 49-year-old Pamela Abercrombie on Sept. 16 and 24-year-old Carey Ross on Sept. 19.
All 4 had been shot within the head.
In Wyandotte County, Kansas, he's charged within the October 28-29 deaths of Damon Washington Irvin and Rau’daja De’Naya Farrow.
Their our bodies had been present in separate residences at a posh in downtown Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, authorities have mentioned.
Johnson's household reported him lacking after they hadn't seen him since Nov. 1, and officers discovered him lifeless in a closet in his residence, shot at the back of his head.
Officers had been tailing Reed on Nov. 5 when he obtained on an Amtrak prepare in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, sure for St.
Louis.
They arrested him when he obtained off on the prepare's first cease in Independence and boarded a bus. 24/7 protection of breaking information and dwell occasions source