ST. LOUIS – A judge signed a pair of arrest warrants for a mother and grandmother for the 2023 overdose death of a 5-month-old girl.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the overdose happened on Sept. 5-6, 2023, at the Budget Inn motel in the 3600 block of Hamilton Avenue, located in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.
Police said the infant’s mother, Brionna Dukes, found the child unresponsive on the motel room bed around 7 a.m. Emergency responders declared the 5-month-old dead a short time later. Dukes’ other children were present in the room: a 7-year-old, a 6-year-old, and 2-year-old twins…