Second man charged in deadly shooting outside Baden market
ST. LOUIS – A second person has been charged in connection with a deadly shooting outside a north St. Louis market earlier this summer.
The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. on June 8 in the 8300 block of North Broadway at the Elite Supermarket and Grill, located in the city’s Baden neighborhood.
According to a statement from a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, officers arrived to find Michael Maxon shot to death in the parking lot. Maxon was 22. A second victim, a 25-year-old man, was found inside the market with a gunshot wound to his leg. An eight-year-old girl suffered a graze wound on her lift wrist.
Officers quickly applied a tourniquet to the young girl, who kept calm despite her injury.
After reviewing surveillance footage and speaking with witnesses, investigators believe Maxon was sitting inside a parked car with the other victims when Tavon L. Jackson, 25, walked up and began firing shots into the vehicle. Police said Jackson pulled Maxon out of the car and shot him again.
Meanwhile, Jackson’s cohort, later identified as Darnell D. Westmoreland, 28, stood nearby with a firearm and kept watch.
Westmoreland fled with Jackson after the shooting.
Jackson was arrested on June 17. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Jackson with first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault, and three counts of armed criminal action. He remains jailed without bond.
Meanwhile, a St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant for Westmoreland on Friday, Aug. 22. Prosecutors have charged Westmoreland with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Westmoreland’s arrest warrant does not allow a bond.