Suspected serial killer charged in Missouri over 7th death

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 loss of life.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker introduced the brand new homicide cost Friday in opposition to Perez Deshay Reed. Baker additionally charged Reed with one depend of armed prison motion and two counts of fraud involving a credit score or debit machine.

The latest expenses in opposition to the 26-year-old Reed, who lived within the St. Louis space, stem from the November 2021 capturing loss of life 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 house, Baker’s workplace stated, citing court docket paperwork. Testing indicated DNA collected from an empty cigarillo bundle present in Johnson’s house was linked to Reed, Baker’s workplace stated.

Baker’s workplace stated 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 they’d 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 have 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 have been present in separate flats at a posh in downtown Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, authorities have stated.

Johnson’s household reported him lacking after they hadn’t seen him since Nov. 1, and officers discovered him useless in a closet in his house, shot behind his head.

Officers have been tailing Reed on Nov. 5 when he acquired on an Amtrak prepare in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, sure for St. Louis. They arrested him when he acquired off on the prepare’s first cease in Independence and boarded a bus.