Suspect in St. Louis teen’s fatal freeway shooting investigated in another roadway attack
Willie Herndon, a suspect in the fatal shooting of a high school student near St. Louis, is now being investigated for a second roadway shooting. Ballistic evidence suggests a potential link between the two incidents.
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It reports on a serious criminal investigation involving public safety and potential serial violence on highways.
The suspect in the fatal freeway shooting of a high school girl just outside St. Louis is being investigated in connection with a second roadway shooting, federal court documents show. Willie Herndon, a 42-year-old from Arlington, Texas, is accused of killing 17-year-old Alyssa Wilson on Oct. 14. In a federal complaint, investigators say a spent shell casing matching the one used in Alyssa’s shooting was found close to where a vehicle was struck on another freeway three days earlier. No one was reported injured in the Oct. 11 shooting in St. Louis proper. The federal complaint, filed in the U.S.
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