ST. PETERS, MO. (AP) - A suburban St. Louis man has been charged in the stabbing death of a woman whose body was found one day after she was reported missing, authorities said.
Damion Delgado, 27, of O’Fallon, was charged this week with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death last month of 22-year-old Amethyst Killian, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Killian, a mother of two, was reported missing by her family on Thanksgiving night, when she failed to return after going out for cigarettes hours earlier. Her body was discovered under some brush the next day just a block from her St. Peters home. Police said she had been stabbed repeatedly, and a knife was found at the scene.
Investigators found text message exchanges with Delgado on Killian’s phone arranging to meet the night she disappeared, police said. Police also interviewed a rideshare driver who said he drove Delgado to the location to meet Killian.
Delgado is being held on $1 million bail.
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