ST. LOUIS — A third man has been charged with murder after police said a woman was shot and killed after she crashed into their car last month.
Corey Evans, 18, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. St. Louis police said Friday that the Circuit Attorney’s Office issued the charges at-large, and the suspect isn’t in custody. No photo of Evans was provided.
Earlier this week, Thomas Shelton, 22, and Douglas Shelton-Herron, 24, were each charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with 39-year-old Lekeshia Stokes' death.
Stokes was found shot in a car in St. Louis in the early morning hours of Feb. 11. St. Louis police said they got a call shortly after midnight regarding a shooting on the 8500 block of Church Road.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a woman in a car suffering from gunshot wounds. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
According to charging documents, Stokes was driving in the area when she sideswiped a Jaguar parked on the side of the road and crashed to a stop into the rear of the car parked in front of the Jaguar.
Charging documents said three men then got out of the Jaguar and fired multiple shots into Stokes' car, striking and killing her.
Police said Stokes and the men accused of shooting her did not know each other.
She was a mother of four who lived in Florissant for several years. She worked as a patient care technician at Christian Northeast Hospital and was engaged to be married. Her sister described her as “the fun one, the outgoing one.”