Damesha Coleman: Missouri vigilante guns down men she believed stole her SUV after tracking down vehicle
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: A woman from Missouri has been accused of shooting two men she suspected to be carjackers who had stolen her SUV following tracking of the vehicle. Damesha Coleman, 35, was charged on Thursday, December 22, with two counts of murder, one count of assault, and three counts of armed criminal action in relation to the shooting that claimed the lives of Darius Jackson, 19, and Joseph Farrar, 49, on Wednesday night at the St Louis Speedie Gas station.
When police arrived at the gas station near North Broadway and Riverview around 10:30 pm, they discovered both men dead with gunshot wounds to the torso. Jackson and Farrar were discovered close to the car and the gas pump, respectively. An unidentified male who had been wounded in the head during the shooting spree, according to officials, was the third victim to survive. His state is still unknown, Daily Mail reported.
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According to The St Louis Dispatch, it is unknown if any or all of the three males who were shot were responsible for the carjacking. Coleman and a man who was also armed can be seen on surveillance footage approaching a Hyundai Tucson at the petrol station. According to the police, Coleman was observed opening the car door before she began shooting.
Coleman, a resident of the Spanish Lake neighborhood of St Louis County who supposedly has no past criminal history, told officers that she went to the gas station to recover her stolen car. Michelle Jackson, the youngest sibling of Farrar, was upset when she learned of her brother's passing and insisted he was an innocent bystander and victim of a stray bullet. "Somebody else's mess killed my brother," Jackson stated, the youngest of Farrar's four siblings, the news publication reported.
According to Jackson, Farrar was at the petrol station to get medicine for his 11-year-old child who had the flu. She claimed that life was difficult for her brother. He struggled with addiction, lived on the streets, and went in and out of prison before being released from the penitentiary in October 2021. Joseph Farrar Jr, 11, and Justin Farrar, 26, were his other two sons. Jackson remarked to 5 on Your Side that even though he felt he had let his family down, his siblings had said they could never be angry with him. "He would just make you laugh," Jackson stated.
Additionally, Farrar's youngest sibling claimed that while she was not angry with Coleman, "she would have contacted the authorities." "I will be more mad with the guys that stole her car to put her in this situation because we're all just one decision away from something like that, making the wrong choice. Because when things happen, we don't always think, it's just a reaction," she stated.