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She was serving a life sentence after being convicted of fatally shooting her husband, Bill Prewitt, in 1984 as he slept in their home in the rural east-central Missouri town of Holden.
An Independence police officer and a court worker were killed in a shooting Thursday that also injured two more officers, according to police and court officials. The shooting occurred at a home ...
The shooting Thursday during an eviction killed a police officer and a civil process server, and wounded two other officers. The charges announced Friday discuss three victims. Independence ...
Since 1989, a total of 101 people were executed by the State of Missouri. All were convicted of first-degree murder and all were executed by lethal injection, although lethal gas remains a legal method of execution. Before April 1989, all executions were carried out at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
On October 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in the Southwest Garden neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States when a 19-year-old former student opened fire on students and staff, killing two and injuring seven before being fatally shot by police.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that ...
On February 7, 2008, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a public meeting in the city hall, leaving six people dead [n 1] and a seventh injured in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, aged 52, shot one police officer with a revolver across the side street from city hall and took the officer's handgun ...
The Missouri Supreme Court has set an execution date for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, despite prosecutors’ ongoing attempts to overturn his conviction. A warrant of execution goes into ...