Woman slain in downtown St
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Lesia Nixon, of St. Louis, lays down roses on Monday, May 23, 2016, at a memorial for Brandi Hill, who was shot and killed during a carjacking Sunday night at the intersection of 11th Street and Washington Avenue. Nixon is the daughter of Lee Nixon, who was widely known as “The Rose Man.” He was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting eight years ago. Albeit Nixon did not know Hill, she consoled a friend of Hill’s who was visiting the memorial and said she knew what they were going through. Photo by Lynden Steele, [email protected]
- Lynden Steele • Post-Dispatch
This screen grab from a surveillance movie provided by the St. Louis Police Department shows two fellows desired in connection with the fatal carjacking downtown on Sunday, May 22, 2016. See the movie here.
Officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near Washington Avenue and 11th Street late on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo by Jeremy Kohler, [email protected]
A 9-month-old female, who was in the car when her mother was fatally shot in a carjacking in downtown St. Louis, was later dropped off at the corner of Angelica and 22nd Streets, photographed on Monday, May 23, 2016. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]
- Christian Gooden
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two boys stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Woman slain in downtown St. Louis carjacking; baby woman thrown out of car but unhurt
Jeremy Kohler
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two boys stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Lesia Nixon, of St. Louis, lays down roses on Monday, May 23, 2016, at a memorial for Brandi Hill, who was shot and killed during a carjacking Sunday night at the intersection of 11th Street and Washington Avenue. Nixon is the daughter of Lee Nixon, who was widely known as “The Rose Man.” He was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting eight years ago. Albeit Nixon did not know Hill, she consoled a friend of Hill’s who was visiting the memorial and said she knew what they were going through. Photo by Lynden Steele, [email protected]
- Lynden Steele • Post-Dispatch
This screen grab from a surveillance movie provided by the St. Louis Police Department shows two dudes dreamed in connection with the fatal carjacking downtown on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Observe the movie here.
Officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near Washington Avenue and 11th Street late on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo by Jeremy Kohler, [email protected]
A 9-month-old woman, who was in the car when her mother was fatally shot in a carjacking in downtown St. Louis, was later dropped off at the corner of Angelica and 22nd Streets, photographed on Monday, May 23, 2016. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]
- Christian Gooden
ST. LOUIS • Brandi Hill had a 9-month-old daughter, a hot car and a heart total of hope.
“I want to be loved,” the 21-year-old wrote on Facebook recently. “I want a glad family I want all the good stuff.”
But her brief life was taken Sunday night in an apparent carjacking on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis.
Hill, of O’Fallon, Mo., had written on Facebook about meeting friends in Fairground Park. Hours later, about Ten:30 p.m., she was driving her crimson two thousand fifteen Dodge Challenger east on Washington with her daughter and a friend, who is pregnant.
Police said the car was stopped in traffic for a signal near 11th Street when two studs walking west approached and demanded the car keys.
They dragged the passenger out through the right side door, police said, then shot Hill before one of them drove a brief distance to 11th Street and dumped her out.
The 2nd robber climbed in through the passenger side window.
They drove away, with the baby woman still inwards.
Hill, left wounded in the middle of Washington, died at a hospital. Her friend was reported to be in stable condition at a hospital.
The baby, named Izzy, was later found unharmed at 22nd and Angelica streets, a few blocks east of Fairground Park. Police said the child had been threw out, still in her car seat, and was found by a neighbor on the block. She is now in the care of relatives.
Police were searching Monday for the shooter and his accomplice. They provided no description of either man but did post a movie they said shows the carjackers.
Police found the Challenger abandoned in an alley in the rear of the one thousand four hundred block of Bremen Avenue.
Hill’s passenger was at the scene on Washington when police arrived but was distraught and could not instantaneously provide a clear picture of what happened, said Police Chief Sam Dotson. She was placed on a stretcher and taken to a hospital.
Dotson said police officers had been within a block of Hill when she was shot.
Hill lived with her mother and sister in a two-story brick house on a picturesque suburban block in O’Fallon. Neighbors described the family as friendly and quiet, and voiced shock at Hill’s death.
Hill attended Fort Zumwalt West High School for three years before transferring to Fort Zumwalt South for her senior year about two years ago, said West Principal Neil Berry.
“Brandi was a indeed sweet dame,” Berry said Monday.
“She ran track and she had a lot of friends here, and when she transferred to South, she had friends in both places.”
She would frequently come back to visit and display off her daughter, Berry said. “She was just truly bubbly and friendly, and the staff loved her. I knew Brandi well; this is very sad.”
Ashley Jost of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story gave incorrect information about where the child was dropped off.
