Anjuan Mosby, Missouri man charged with abduction and murder of Michelle Hampton, Clayton area woman, with the suspect and victim known to each other as suspect forced victim to withdraw money at 3 different ATM’s before being found dead hours after her kidnapping.
A St Louis, Missouri man has been arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a Clayton area woman who was forced out of her vehicle earlier this week in front of her home as her twin sister sought to stop her abduction.
Anjuan Mosby, 43, of Florissant was charged with 18 felonies in the investigation, including first-degree murder and eight counts of armed criminal action, the St. Louis Circuit’s Attorney’s Office announced on Saturday, a day after the wanted man’s arrest and the man admitting culpability.
Investigators believe that Mosby and the victim, 37-year-old woman, Michelle Hampton, were known to each other, while declining to elaborate on the dynamic of their ‘relationship.’
On Wednesday, authorities were called to St. Louis’ Kingsway East neighborhood just after 11 a.m. following the discovery of a body in an alleyway on the 4700 block of Greer Avenue riddled with gunshot wounds. The victim was identified as Hampton who’d been abducted earlier that morning in front her own Whitburn Drive home circa 7am by an armed suspect as she was about to drive off.
The victim’s twin sister, Samantha told FOX 2 that Hampton was in the driver’s seat of a car with masked man in the passenger seat. The twin followed the vehicle into St. Louis City, but stopped after someone fired shots at her car.
According to KSDK, Hampton was made to stop several times to withdraw cash from ATMs.
‘We were told by officers that they drove her around to a couple of different ATMs and made her withdraw money before shooting her five times in the head in the alley,’ Hampton’s brother, Mike Potter, told the outlet.
Officers were able to find a yellow truck seen in surveillance video trailing Hampton’s sister at an abandoned residence. In a dumpster nearby, they said, they found a coat similar to a coat the shooter wore at the time of the murder. It had his DNA on it. The shooter was linked to Mosby, the St Louis Dispatch reported.
At some point, Hampton had been forced out of the vehicle she’d been seen leaving in front of her home and into the yellow truck police said. Hampton was forced to go to three bank ATM’s to withdraw funds, with a total of $3K withdrawn despite attempts to withdraw $10K during ATM requests.
Mosby remains held with bond denied.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department stated they were able to arrest Mosby with assistance from the US Marshals Task Force and St. Louis County Police Department.
St. Louis police say the investigation into Hampton’s death is still ‘very active and ongoing.’ If you have any relevant information to this case, contact SLMPD’s homicide division at 314-444-5371 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).
