Federal marshals arrested Jiya Thomas-Felix in Florissant on June 26, 2026, ending what authorities say was a nearly five-year run from a deadly high-speed crash that killed two people, including her 12-year-old nephew.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, an arrest warrant was issued for Thomas-Felix on December 8, 2021, charging her with two counts of involuntary manslaughter tied to a December 2020 crash in St. Louis County. St. Louis County police reported that Thomas-Felix was driving at a high rate of speed when she lost control of the vehicle, killing both passengers, one of them her nephew.
The trail that finally led to Florissant started with a very different kind of call. Investigators say the breakthrough came after they reviewed a December 2025 St. Louis County police report involving a weapon-brandishing incident. The couple at the center of that call left the scene in a rideshare, according to the Tampa Free Press…