Jury hands down guilty verdict in Walnut Park West double murder
ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis jury convicted a man Thursday for a double murder in the city’s Walnut Park West neighborhood in 2022.
According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, the murders happened on Feb. 28, 2022.
Police found Thomas Anderson III on the front lawn of a residence in the 4800 block of Norwich Place around 8:05 p.m. Anderson had been shot in the head and was brought to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 44.
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Around 9:30 a.m. the following morning, police found Tyler Vaughn approximately 100 feet away in the 4900 block of Goodfellow Avenue. Vaughn was declared dead at the scene. He was 32.
Homicide detectives later arrested Deandre Walton for the murders.
Walton was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action.
Walton will be sentenced on August 1. He faces life imprisonment on each murder count and three to 15 years in prison for each count of armed criminal action.
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