Murder

Two men were charged Tuesday with fatally shooting five other men while attempting to rob them of money and drugs inside a vacant St. Louis area apartment building.

A 37-year-old central Missouri man who admitted killing his 1-year-old son and burning the body has been sentenced to life in prison.

A Pettis County Jury convicted Justin K Lewis of second degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of Heather McClellan.

A 19-year-old Marshall man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of second degree murder and armed criminal action.

A Missouri man whose initial death sentence for killing his grandparents was overturned has now been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

An Illinois man is the second person to be charged in connection with the alleged murder of a California man whose body was found in June 2018 in Miller County.

A Lee's Summit man is charged in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at their Raytown apartment.

Deonta Johnson, of Normandy, was charged Wednesday in the November 2018 deaths of 47-year-old Igor Zhukov and 43-year-old Michele Laws, from Olivette.

A Chicago-area man is charged in the shooting death of a Columbia man who had fatally shot a community activist.

A Lee's Summit teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the stabbing death of a woman who was attacked at a car wash.