Two teens charged with murder after ‘targeted’ shootings in East St. Louis

St. Clair County prosecutors on Tuesday filed first-degree murder charges against the teenage suspects in a series of shootings Sunday that targeted one of the suspects’ family members.

Ja’ymeir M. Davis, 16, of East St. Louis, was charged as an adult with five counts of first-degree murder, dismembering a body, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery, aggravated vehicular hijacking and unlawful use of a stolen firearm.

Another suspect has also been charged with first-degree murder, among other unspecified charges, in juvenile court, according to St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office spokesman Chris Allen…

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