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ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man has been charged with striking a Chicago mother and daughter with his car and killing them both.
According to Evita Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the crash happened around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday at North 18th and Olive streets in Downtown West.
Police claim a 2020 Jeep Cherokee was speeding eastbound on Olive when the driver ran through a red light and sideswiped the front end of a 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander, which was traveling north on 18th. The Cherokee spun out and struck Laticha Bracero and Alyssa Cordova, who were walking through the crosswalk on Olive Street.
Bracero and Cordova were knocked to the north sidewalk of Olive. The Cherokee t-boned a 2015 Mazda CX-5 traveling west on Olive.
Bracero was pronounced dead at the scene. She was 42. Cordova was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was 21. The two women had come to St. Louis for the Drake concert earlier that night.
Four other people, including two teenagers, were injured in the crash.
The driver of the Jeep Cherokee, identified as Monte Henderson, was seriously injured in the crash. Investigators believe Henderson was traveling at 70 miles an hour when he ran the red light and caused the crash.
Late Thursday, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Henderson, 22, with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of armed criminal action. A judge set his bond at $200,000.
