Man pleads guilty in crash that killed Ballwin urgent care worker
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 at about 8:15 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020.
Geiger had passed out at the wheel and drove through lanes of oncoming traffic and a parking lot before striking a light pole, tree, and Politte. The SUV then struck a Total Access Urgent Care building at 2501 Clarkson Road. Politte was leaving work at the time, court documents say.