ST. LOUIS – St. Louis prosecutors agreed to amend one murder charge and dismiss another entirely to secure a guilty plea from a man accused of a 2024 fatal shooting in the city’s Kingsway East neighborhood.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the shooting happened on Dec. 15, 2024, in the 4900 block of St. Louis Avenue.
The victim, Kyle Fitgerald of House Springs, was killed in front of an abandoned house. Surveillance video from a market across the street showed Deandre M. Johnson walk up to Fitzgerald, followed by two muzzle flashes. A witness also told investigators that Johnson shot Fitzgerald…