By Staff Reporter | iSkyCreations – News & Media (ISC News & Media)
Published Feb 15th 2024
ST. LOUIS – In a significant legal development on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Kurt Wallace, a 31-year-old St. Louis, Missouri man, to 60 years in prison. Wallace’s crimes, including fatal and nonfatal carjackings and an escape from jail, have left a trail of violence and grief across the community.
Wallace’s crime spree in 2017 involved three separate carjackings, during which he shot the drivers, orchestrating the encounters through a dating app alongside his co-defendant, Jherrica Dixon. The most heart-wrenching of these acts was the fatal shooting of Jaz Granderson, a beloved football coach at De Smet Jesuit High School, during the theft of his Jeep Grand Cherokee on October 16, 2017.
The series of violent carjackings began on September 16, 2017, when Wallace shot the driver of a 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in St. Louis. He continued his criminal activities on October 15, 2017, shooting another driver in the leg during the carjacking of a Cadillac CTS.