Double shooting in St. Louis linked to St. Charles burglary ring

By Jeff Small

KSDK -- Police say a rash of car burglaries over the weekend in St. Charles could be connected to a pair of St. Louis men who shot and killed Wednesday morning by Metro police officers.

St. Charles police say everything suggests the same men who hit 34 vehicles in their jurisdiction are the same ones involved in the fatal double shooting in St. Louis. The connections begin with the stolen truck they were in.

This past weekend, a group of men went to work breaking into vehicles at several St. Charles locations, including parking lots. Thieves targeted several area hotels, including the Embassy Suites and Fairfield Inn.

"They were taking anything of value that was left in the vehicles from small electronics to guns and things like that," said Captain Donovan Kenton, St. Charles County Police Department.

More than $1,200 of newly purchased clothes was stolen overnight from Bob Sargent's car.

"It just makes you mad to know there are people like that," Sargent said.

Police believe the same men who broke in nearly 40 cars also stole a truck over the weekend from a Comfort Suites hotel in St. Charles.

Early Wednesday morning, two St. Louis police officers shot and killed two men inside that same truck after a pursuit in North St Louis. The truck crashed and flipped at Clara and Wabada.

Officers said two people inside the truck reached for weapons so police shot them.

Police said three semi automatic weapons were found inside the stolen truck.  The two armed subjects, 26-year-old Jeremiah Henderson and 21-year-old-old Darrell Williams, were pronounced dead at the scene. Two other people in truck remain in custody for question. The fifth person in the truck, identified as 32-year-old Montraill L. Claiborne, is being treated at a local hospital.