Suspected serial killer arrested in connection with 6 homicides spanning 2 states, police say

ST. LOUIS — A Missouri man, believed to be the serial killer responsible for six murders and several shootings across two states, has been arrested, authorities confirmed Monday.

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Perez Deshay Reed, 25, was charged Saturday by St. Louis County prosecutors with two September murders, including that of a 16-year-old girl, in the jurisdiction, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Federal and local authorities detailed in a Monday news conference that the spree spanned several weeks in September and October and stretched from St. Louis to Kansas City, Kansas, KSDK reported.

St. Louis police confirmed Monday they plan to seek charges against Reed for two fatal shootings in St. Louis, while federal prosecutors added a gun charge, and officials have said that Reed may also face additional charges connected to two Kansas City homicides, the Post-Dispatch reported.

According to the FBI, Reed was arrested Sunday with a gun used in six shootings, four of which were fatal. Multiple police sources confirmed to KSDK that the gun is a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol.

Authorities have not provided a motive for the shootings.

According to the Post-Dispatch, the investigation to date has linked Reed to the following shootings:

• Sept. 12: A man, identified in court papers as “L.M.” and left permanently disabled, was shot several times in the chest without provocation while waiting at a Dellwood, Missouri, bus stop at about 9 p.m.
• Sept. 13: Sixteen-year-old Marnay Haynes, a runaway who had spent time in a group home, was fatally shot in the arm and head at 9:34 p.m. in unincorporated St. Louis County.
• Sept. 16: A woman identified as “R.H.” was shot in the face at 10:23 p.m. in St. Louis, but made her way to a nearby gas station for help. The victim, who was later admitted to the intensive care unit of an area hospital, was reportedly conscious and breathing when first responders arrived but could not tell police what happened.
• Sept. 16: Pamela Abercrombie, 49, of Spanish Lake, Missouri, was fatally shot in the head at 11:45 p.m., about half a mile from the shooting of R.H.
• Sept. 19: St. Louis police found Carey Ross, 24, of St. Louis, dead just after noon in a vacant lot with gunshots to the head and body, likely suffered 12 hours earlier.
• Sept. 26: Police in Ferguson, Missouri, found the body of Lester Robinson, 40, at 7:15 a.m. He had been fatally shot in the head and the hand.
• Oct. 28: Damon Irvin, 35, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his Kansas City, Kansas, apartment on Nov. 1, four days after Reed was spotted on surveillance footage entering Irvin’s residence
• Oct. 29: Rau’Daja Fairrow, 25, was found dead in her Kansas City apartment on Nov. 2, three days after surveillance footage captured a man matching Reed’s description entering the residence with her.

Read the complete Post-Dispatch and KSDK reports.

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