St. Louis man is already in prison for killing a boy accused of murdering a Moline Acres woman

The two murders more than three and a half years ago were unrelated and occurred 45 days apart. The defendant in both murders, Treshawn Fox, was 18 at the time.

St. Louis County prosecutors charged Fox, now 22, on Wednesday with first-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action in connection with the death of Chrishell Fulton.

Fulton, 41, was fatally shot on New Year's Eve 2020 after colliding with cars on Shepley Drive near the Glasgow Village area of ​​North County.

Authorities said they now believe Fox was a passenger in the first vehicle that hit Fulton that night. He was driving a Lexus and a witness told investigators that Fox fired the shots at Fulton, according to charging documents.

St. Louis County investigators did not explain in court records why the case only recently resulted in charges. Fox is already serving a sentence at the state prison in Bonne Terre for a murder he committed in February 2021 in the city of St. Louis. Bail for the new case was set at $500,000, cash only.

On December 31, 2020, at approximately 10 p.m., St. Louis County Police officers responded to the 300 block of Shepley Drive for a report of a shooting and multi-vehicle accident.

Investigators learned that Fulton was driving east in the 400 block of Shepley Drive when she struck another car, a black Lexus. She continued into the 300 block of Shepley, crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic and struck two other vehicles.

At some point, Fulton was struck by gunfire. She died in a hospital. According to her obituary, Fulton was a mother of three children. She lived in the 2300 block of Gardner Drive in Moline Acres.

St. Louis County police now say a witness has identified Fox as the passenger in the Lexus who shot Fulton, although officials have not said when they first considered Fox a suspect.

Police found a gun in another car, a Chevrolet Impala, parked nearby. Forensic ballistics examined the weapon and compared it to a shell casing found at the scene and a bullet recovered from Fulton's body, police said. They matched the gun found in the Impala, police said. According to court documents, Fox's DNA was found in the gun's magazine.

St. Louis County investigators also found Facebook messages between the driver of the Lexus and Fox in which Fox asked whether police had found the gun or his cellphone at the crime scene, authorities said.

The report differs from what police reported in a January 14, 2021 press release announcing charges against another man just two weeks after Fulton's death. In that news release, police said three witnesses identified the shooter as the man who was driving the Lexus, and prosecutors have filed charges against that man. It wasn't Fox. It was Eman Baker, who was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Christopher King, a spokesman for the St. Louis County District Attorney's Office, said late Wednesday that the case against Baker was permanently dropped in January 2023 when a key witness failed to show up for the trial.

Fox, meanwhile, remains in state prison in Bonne Terre for the February 2021 murder of 15-year-old Teshawn Ford. The boy was shot outside Desta's Market & Deli at 2503 North Taylor Avenue in St. Louis – about a month and a half after the shooting and crash on Shepley Drive.

According to the indictment, Ford's brother told police that he and Ford had arranged a gun deal with Fox. When Ford handed Fox a gun, Fox tried to grab it and fired several shots. A 70-year-old man was struck by scattered gunfire, authorities said. A few days later, Fox was charged with Ford's death.

In June 2022, Fox was convicted of the boy's death. Fox pleaded guilty in St. Louis Circuit Court to armed criminal action and second-degree murder – shortened from first-degree murder – as well as first-degree assault and criminal damage to property.

Fox's plea agreement called for a 12-year sentence for murder and a consecutive three-year sentence for armed criminal action. He received concurrent sentences for the other charges.

Before he went to prison, Fox lived in the 4100 block of St. Louis Avenue.