Source: Office of United States Attorneys
ST. LOUIS – Jurors on Thursday found a St. Louis County, Missouri man guilty of the murder-for-hire of a New Jersey man in 2022.
Moreion Lindsey, 35, was found guilty of on one count each of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire.
Evidence and testimony at Lindsey’s trial, which began Monday, showed that he fatally shot Titus Armstead on April 21, 2022, in Penrose Park in St. Louis. Lindsey had been hired for the murder by Jerome Williams, at the behest of a New Jersey drug trafficker, Ray Bradley. Bradley blamed Armstead for the theft of drugs and millions of dollars in cash and arranged for him to fly to St. Louis, where he was met by Lindsey at about 9:15 p.m. Armstead thought Bradley was sending him to St. Louis to protect him from possible harm. Fifteen minutes later in Penrose Park, Lindsey fatally shot Armstead with a .45-caliber handgun, evidence showed. He took a photo of the body using a prepaid “burner” phone to provide proof of the death to Williams and Bradley.
He was later paid $15,000 by Williams. Williams disposed of evidence, including the burner phone, Armstead’s Social Security card and other belongings. Lindsey had the SUV that he used to drive Armstead to the park reported stolen. He used $5,000 of the money the next day to buy a Chevrolet Suburban.
Lindsey is scheduled to be sentenced April 24. The crimes carry a mandatory life sentence in prison.
Bradley, 46, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in June to one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of murder-for-hire. He was sentenced in September to 25 years in prison.
Williams, 52, pleaded guilty in December to a charge of destruction of evidence to obstruct a federal investigation.
The case was investigated by the FBI, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the Atlanta Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Angie Danis, Ryan Finlen and Nathan Chapman are prosecuting the case.