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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A man appeared in St. Louis County Circuit Court Tuesday morning and admitted to a double murder involving his father and fiancée.
Jerry Cannon, 40, and Iesha Emery, 33, were found shot to death inside Cannon’s home in the 1100 block of Oran Drive in Bellefontaine Neighbors. A family member contacted police around 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2018, after discovering the bodies.
The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was activated to assist the Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department in the investigation.
Home security video showed Cannon and Emory enter the home with Tyjuan Cannon-Scarelli, 18 at the time, between 3:09 p.m. and 3:12 p.m. on Nov. 25. At 3:41 p.m., Cannon-Scarelli can be seen leaving the home with two duffle bags and a firearm. Security video shows no one entered the home until the morning of Dec. 2.
Police discovered 9mm shell casings in the residence. A 9mm handgun was also missing. Jerry Cannon’s 2008 Buick Lucerne had been stolen. The vehicle was later recovered in the Chicago area.
Investigators said social media posts showed Cannon-Scarelli holding what appeared to be the stolen firearm.
Days after the bodies were discovered, authorities named Cannon-Scarelli as their suspect.
Cannon-Scarelli was eventually arrested and confessed to a Bellefontaine Neighbors detective. However, that confession was ruled inadmissible in court because the detective, who no longer works in law enforcement, violated Cannon-Scarelli’s right to an attorney, according to a spokesperson for the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
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After delays caused by changing defense attorneys and the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic, Cannon-Scarelli, now 22, finally pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action. He was sentenced to 30 years on each murder count and three years on each count of armed criminal action. Those sentences will run concurrently, for a total of 33 years. However, Cannon-Scarelli will receive credit for time served before and during the trial.
The victims’ families viewed the plea hearing and sentencing via videoconferencing. When Cannon-Scarelli’s sentence was announced, family members cried out that it was “a slap on the wrist,” a spokesperson for the prosecuting attorney’s office said.
“The fact is, in a circumstantial case with no confession, these cases are challenging and, as a result, unlikely to result in the maximum penalty that the family wants and, for that matter, deserves,” St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said. “(Cannon-Scarelli) is being held accountable and will spend more years in prison than he has been alive today before he even becomes eligible for parole.”
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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