Driving Related Deaths

ST CHARLES, Mo. — A 20-year-old woman is facing charges after another woman was hit and killed in St. Charles in September. Jordan Medlin, of St. Charles County, is facing a charge of ‘driving while intoxicated – causing the death of another’ in connection with the death of 67-year-old Judith Haenni. According to police, on…

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BALLWIN, Mo. — A man pleaded guilty Monday in St. Louis County Circuit Court to killing a woman in 2020 after crashing his SUV into the Ballwin urgent care building where she worked. According to court documents, Trenton Geiger, 22, of Chesterfield admitted he caused the death of 25-year-old Marissa Politte by striking her with his SUV…

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — An accident that left four people dead along Interstate 64 Friday morning is now a criminal investigation, according to St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar. Lohmar said authorities are awaiting toxicology reports on the driver who caused the crash, and that the driver has a history of drug charges. The…

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — The man charged in a Valentine’s Day crash that killed two mothers and their two daughters pleaded guilty Monday afternoon. Elijah Henderson entered a guilty plea to four counts of involuntary manslaughter during the hearing rather than taking the case to trial. The judge then sentenced Henderson to 10 years…

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A Collinsville man was found guilty on Tuesday in connection to a fatal crash that killed a Highland woman in 2018. Wayne Stayton, 41, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated DUI causing death, Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday. The crash happened at about 4 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2018,…

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The 70-year-old pickup truck driver slipped in and out of consciousness in his final moments. The other driver stood outside his heavily damaged BMW, a powerful stench of marijuana drifting from the car. These are some of the details included in an arrest report that sheds more light on a North Las Vegas crash that…

UNINCORPORATED WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A warrant is out for the arrest of a man charged with reckless homicide in a marijuana-related crash, after a baby and woman were killed in Unincorporated Waukegan in October. According to police, Jarelle Brown, 28, of Zion will be facing two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of driving…

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