Source: Office of United States Attorneys
ST. LOUIS – A man from Venice, Illinois appeared in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Monday to answer an indictment accusing him of a September carjacking in the Tower Grove East neighborhood of St. Louis.
Harry Moore, 20, was indicted November 20 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on one felony count of carjacking and one felony count of possession and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. He pleaded not guilty Monday.
The indictment accuses Moore of stealing a 2022 Subaru Outback at gunpoint on Sept. 9, 2024. A motion seeking to have Moore held in jail until trial says he was in a stolen Cadillac CTS with two others at the time of the carjacking and ordered the victim to unlock his cellphone and provide the PIN number to his ATM card, which Moore used a short time later to withdraw cash at a gas station. The motion also says Moore was caught on camera later that morning along the western edge of Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis, sitting on the window frame of the passenger door of the Subaru and firing shots at a man running away.
The carjacking charge is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both prison and a fine. The brandishing charge is punishable by seven years to life in prison.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI and the St. Clair County (Illinois) Sheriff’s Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Martin is prosecuting the case.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.