A 26-year-old man reportedly stole a 2013 Cadillac XTS in Eureka and then while driving the car, was involved in a fatal accident in St. Louis. Two women were killed in the accident, and the driver was injured, authorities reported.
The driver will not be named unless charges are filed against him, and as of Dec. 5 none had been filed.
The accident occurred at about 10:05 p.m. Nov. 22 when the suspect allegedly was driving the car at a high rate of speed west on Meramec Street near Gravois Road and struck the back of a westbound Chevrolet Trax. The Cadillac rolled over, and the Chevrolet was pushed into the intersection, St. Louis Police reported.
Ayanna Woods, 42, was driving the Chevrolet, and her sister, DeVonne Wilson, 53, was a passenger in the vehicle. Both were killed, the report said.
Police reported that the sisters lived together in the Dutchtown neighborhood in St. Louis where the accident occurred.
Eureka Police reported that the Cadillac was stolen at about 6 p.m. Nov. 22 in the 300 block of North Central Avenue. The victim, a 42-year-old Eureka man, told investigators he had left the keys and his phone in the car when he went into a home to get some spices and was away from the car for only about a minute when it was stolen, the report said.
Detectives used the man’s cell phone to track the car, and when they arrived in south St. Louis where the car was located, the accident had already occurred, according to the report.