ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Metropolitan Police announced a second man has been charged in the killing and kidnapping of a Clayton woman.
36-year-old Emmanuel Suarez was arrested Monday afternoon for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Michelle Hampton. Over the weekend, police arrested Anjuan Mosby. They are both charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping, attempted robbery among other charges.
On the morning of Nov. 20, police say Hampton was reportedly kidnapped by an armed suspect outside her sister’s home on Whitburn Drive.
She was forced to drive her car from Clayton into the city of St. Louis. The victim’s sister witnessed the victim entering the Nissan Rogue with the suspect.
A GoFundMe page explains the sister called 911 and followed Hampton’s vehicle. She says that a second vehicle, a yellow truck, followed behind her, which tried to force her car off the road and shot at her. Police say that the shooting happened at Euclid and Enright. No injuries were reported in the gunfire.
The victim was brought to at least three different banks in St. Louis City in the yellow truck, making thousands of dollars in withdrawals, according to court documents. During each transaction, she was in the vehicle's backseat.
After the banks, the victim was then taken to an alley in the 4700 block of Greer where she was shot multiple times by a male suspect with a handgun. The suspect then left the scene in the yellow truck, according to court documents.
She died from the gunshot wounds.
The bank incidents and the shooting were captured on surveillance.
Police later located the yellow truck in an abandoned residence. Officers also located items in a dumpster near the residence. Footage shows that those items seemed to have been in the back of the yellow truck during the crime spree.
One item was a coat that appeared to be a similar coat the shooter had been wearing when the murdered happened, according to court documents. The coat had the suspect's DNA on it, according to court documents.
The suspect was arrested after his car was spiked. Officers found a rifle and suspect narcotics inside the car.
The investigation is ongoing by police.
Mosby also is facing a federal charge, kidnapping resulting in death.
Mitchell McCoy, director of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Public Affairs & Information Division, said it is rare to have a federal charge issued on a weekend.
“That goes to show you the amount of work that was being put into solving this (and) holding the individuals accountable,” he said.
“We cannot thank the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our federal counterparts enough for their assistance, along with the Clayton Police Department and the other law enforcement agencies that were involved in the capture of this very dangerous man.”