联邦法院文件显示，一名涉嫌在圣路易斯郊外高速公路上枪杀一名高中女生的嫌疑人，正因另一起公路枪击案接受调查。42岁的威利·赫恩登来自得克萨斯州阿灵顿，被控于10月14日杀害17岁的艾丽莎·威尔逊。调查人员在一份联邦起诉书中称，在三天前另一条高速公路上被击中的一辆汽车附近，发现了一枚与艾丽莎枪击案中所用弹壳相符的废弃弹壳。
The suspect in the fatal freeway shooting of a high school girl just outside St. Louis is being investigated in connection with a second roadway shooting, federal court documents show. Willie Herndon, a 42-year-old from Arlington, Texas, is accused of killing 17-year-old Alyssa Wilson on Oct. 14. In a federal complaint, investigators say a spent shell casing matching the one used in Alyssa’s shooting was found close to where a vehicle was struck on another freeway three days earlier.
据报道，10月11日发生在圣路易斯市内的枪击案中无人受伤。这份提交至美国伊利诺伊州南区联邦地区法院的联邦起诉书称，一辆刚驶出55号州际公路的汽车遭到枪击，监控录像显示，当时一辆白色SUV停在州际公路路边，随后“在枪击发生后立即逃离现场”。起诉书称：“现场提取到一枚弹壳。该弹壳底部的印记与调查人员在威尔逊谋杀案调查中提取的弹壳为同一制造商。”
No one was reported injured in the Oct. 11 shooting in St. Louis proper. The federal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, states that a vehicle that had just exited Interstate 55 was hit by gunfire, and that security video showed a white SUV parked on the side of the interstate at the time before it “fled the scene immediately after the shooting.”“A single cartridge case was recovered,” the federal complaint states. “The cartridge case’s headstamp was the same manufacturer as the one recovered by investigators during Wilson’s murder investigation.”
起诉书称，目前正在进行实验室检测，以确定弹道证据是否将两起案件联系起来。文件显示，赫恩登定于周二在圣路易斯东部的美国联邦地区法院出庭，就其审前羁押举行听证会，他面临一项联邦指控，即作为重罪犯非法持有枪支。文件称，他曾在洛杉矶因2001年未经同意擅自取走车辆，以及2015年接收明知被盗财物和入室盗窃而被判重罪。
Lab testing is being conducted to determine if ballistic evidence ties the two crimes, according to the complaint. Herndon is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis on Tuesday for a hearing on his pretrial detention on a federal charge of being a felon with a gun, according to the documents, which state he was convicted of felonies in Los Angeles for taking a vehicle without consent in 2001 and for receiving known stolen property and burglary in 2015.
赫恩登还定于11月4日在同一法院出席预审听证会。他的联邦公设辩护人未回应置评请求。一名高中生的生命戛然而止赫恩登在因杀害艾丽莎被捕后被控一级谋杀和持械犯罪行为。艾丽莎是密苏里州弗洛里森特附近的一名高中生，事发时正驾车前往圣……她于10月14日中枪时，正在参加圣路易斯动物园的万圣节庆祝活动。
Herndon is also scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on Nov. 4 in the same courthouse. His federal public defender did not respond to a request for comment. A high schooler’s life cut short Herndon was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after his arrest in the killing of Alyssa, a high schooler from nearby Florissant, Missouri, who was driving to a St. Louis Zoo Halloween celebration when she was shot Oct. 14.
“阿丽莎才17岁，对生活充满热情，对未来充满期待，”她的父亲罗伯特·希克曼在周一的新闻发布会上说。“这是一起毫无意义的暴行。”当局称，袭击发生后，赫尔登的妻子泰娅·赫尔登涉嫌开车将两人送到距圣路易斯约12英里的一家伊利诺伊州酒店。她面临一项州级妨碍起诉的指控。当局表示，阿丽莎与这两人没有任何关系。
“Alyssa was 17, excited about her life, excited about her future,” her father, Robert Hickman, said at a news conference Monday. “This was a senseless act.”Herndon’s wife, Taiya Herndon, allegedly drove the pair to an Illinois hotel roughly 12 miles from St. Louis after the attack, authorities said. She faces a state charge of hindering prosecution. Authorities have said Alyssa had no ties to the pair.
目前尚不清楚两名被告在州级案件中是否已被指派辩护律师。圣路易斯地区的公设辩护人办公室未回应置评请求。据联邦刑事起诉书称，袭击发生后，当局搜查了赫尔登夫妇在伊利诺伊州附近所住的酒店房间，发现了写有手写记录的本子。起诉书称，这些记录包括车牌号码、车辆描述，以及威利·赫尔登认为正在跟踪他的执法人员的外貌描述。
It’s not clear if either defendant has been assigned counsel in the state cases. The public defender’s office for the St. Louis area did not respond to a request for comment. Following a search of the Herndons’ nearby Illinois hotel room after the attack, authorities said they found notebooks with handwritten entries, according to the federal criminal complaint. The entries included license plate numbers, descriptions of vehicles and descriptions of law enforcement personnel Willie Herndon believed were following him, the complaint said.
检察官在起诉书中指称，10月2日，赫尔登夫妇从得克萨斯州驾车前往阿肯色州，随后前往密苏里州，于次日抵达，途中使用了多块不属于他们那辆白色SUV的俄克拉荷马州车牌中的一块。他们说，在阿丽莎遭枪击后，其中一块车牌被更换。枪击过程被监控录像拍下调查人员依据10月14日袭击的监控录像，在周一的新闻发布会上表示，有人将一辆白色别克昂科雷停在密苏里州奥弗兰德境内170号州际公路南行方向的路肩上，该地点位于圣路易斯郊外。
On Oct. 2, the Herndons drove from Texas to Arkansas and then Missouri, arriving the next day, while using one of multiple Oklahoma license plates that did not belong to their white SUV, prosecutors alleged in the complaint. One plate was switched following Alyssa’s shooting, they said. Killing captured on security video Investigators relying on security video of the Oct. 14 attack said during Monday’s news conference someone in a white Buick Enclave stopped on the shoulder of the southbound side of Interstate 170 in Overland, Missouri, just outside St. Louis.
当局称，此人下车后来回踱步，最终在阿丽莎的车辆经过时向其开枪。根据针对威利·赫尔登的联邦起诉书，一颗子弹射穿了阿丽莎车辆的后部，击中这名少女的背部，并从她的胸部穿出。起诉书称，她当时正前往动物园与朋友会面，行程才走了12分钟。
That person got out, paced around and ultimately opened fire on Alyssa’s vehicle as it passed, authorities said. A single round penetrated the back of Alyssa’s vehicle and struck the teenager in the back, exiting through her chest, according to the federal complaint against Willie Herndon. She was 12 minutes into her journey to meet a friend at the zoo, it said.
阿莉莎最终被紧急送往位于圣路易斯的巴恩斯-犹太医院，官员称她在那里被宣告死亡。警方利用安防视频信息，包括白色别克的车牌号码以及车尾门上的阿肯色大学野牛队贴纸，追踪到伊利诺伊州凯西维尔的一家戴斯旅馆，官员称侦探在10月15日和16日对该车辆进行了数小时的监视。官员称，当泰亚·赫恩登走近该车辆时，警方冲上去将她逮捕。
Alyssa was ultimately rushed to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, where she was pronounced dead, officials said. Using information from security video, including a license plate number for the white Buick and an Arkansas Razorbacks sticker on its liftgate, authorities tracked the SUV to a Days Inn in Caseyville, Illinois, where detectives spent hours staking it out on Oct. 15 and 16, authorities have said. When Taiya Herndon approached the vehicle, authorities rushed her, they said.
随后，威利·赫恩登从旅馆出现，官员称他逃跑并也被拘留。匹配的弹壳针对泰亚·赫恩登的刑事起诉书称，威利·赫恩登向调查人员承认，他在10月14日向高速公路侧面开火，而她则承认自己在驾驶。“在接受采访时，威利·赫恩登承认他站在南向170号州际公路的乘客门外，并开枪，”州起诉书写道。“泰亚·赫恩登承认驾驶这辆白色别克Enclave。”
When Willie Herndon soon emerged from the hotel afterward, authorities said, he ran and was also taken into custody. Matching shell casings The criminal complaint against Taiya Herndon stated that Willie Herndon admitted to investigators that he opened fire on the side of the freeway on Oct. 14, and that she admitted to driving. “When interviewed, Willie Herndon admitted to standing outside the passenger door of the vehicle on southbound Interstate 170, and discharging a rifle,” the state complaint states. “Taiya Hendon admitted to driving the white Buick Enclave.”
根据联邦刑事起诉书，对赫恩登夫妇旅馆房间的搜查发现了一把美国定制步枪公司（American Built Custom Rifle Company）生产的AR-15半自动步枪。该枪装有MaxxTech 23 7.62×39弹药，弹药的品牌和口径与调查人员称在对阿莉莎的袭击后在170号州际公路侧发现的弹壳相匹配。起诉书称，MaxxTech也是在10月11日袭击现场附近发现的弹壳的制造商。
A search of the Herndons’ hotel room turned up an American Built Custom Rifle Company version of the AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle, according to the federal criminal complaint. It was loaded with MaxxTech 23 7.62x39 ammunition, which matches the brand and size of spent shell casing investigators said they found at the side of Interstate 170 after the attack on Alyssa, according to the federal complaint. MaxxTech was also the maker of the spent casing found near the Oct. 11 attack, it said.
泰亚·赫恩登定于周四出庭就其保释金金额进行听证，保释金为50万美元，须全额缴纳。根据州法院记录，她的初步听证会定于11月19日。
Taiya Herndon is scheduled to appear for a hearing over the amount of her bail, set at $500,000 to be paid in full, on Thursday. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19, according to state court records.