ST. LOUIS (AP) - Three men have been sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman outside of a St. Louis fast-food restaurant before she could testify in an assault case.
A judge sentenced 44-year-old Leon Moss, 23-year-old Christopher Spates and 32-year-old Donald White on Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://bit.ly/11KJs4E ) reported. They were convicted in October of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Moss’s ex-girlfriend, 36-year-old Angie Young.
Each declined to speak at the sentencing hearing.
In August 2011, Moss was facing trial on an assault charge that could have earned him 15 years in prison. Young, a single mother, was supposed to be the complaining witness. Court records say she began dating Moss sometime in 2009, and she and her daughter lived with him for about a year.
Surveillance video from the restaurant’s parking lot showed Young entering the White Castle and returning to her car with food. The recording shows Spates running across the lot to the driver’s side door and opening fire. She was shot 11 times.
Moss was convicted of arranging a $10,000 hit on Young, and he was linked to the death through witnesses and surveillance tapes that spotted a pickup truck similar to his near Young. Prosecutors said there were also witnesses to the payouts, $7,500 to Spates and the rest to White.
“I hope that God has mercy on all y’all’s souls,” Young’s aunt, June King said, adding, “You didn’t have to do what you did to Angie.”
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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, https://www.stltoday.com
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