ST. LOUIS — A federal judge sentenced a convicted felon to life plus 15 years in prison for fatally shooting two 18-year-old women and wounding two pregnant teenagers in a rampage that also caused the death of an unborn baby — less than a month after the gunman had been released on parole from a 20-year sentence for robbery and armed criminal action.
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark imposed the sentence on Eddie Marcus Love, 39, who opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol at 1:46 a.m. on May 7, 2023, near the 1900 block of Agnes Street in St. Louis. Two of the four victims, both 18, were killed. The two surviving victims, both 17 and pregnant, were wounded. One victim was 30 weeks pregnant; her child was delivered by emergency C-section and died on June 11, 2023, from gunshot wounds. The other wounded victim was 10 weeks pregnant, and her child was not injured.
“Less than a month after being released on parole after being sentenced to 20 years in prison on robbery and armed criminal action charges, Mr. Love essentially decides to go on a killing spree,” Judge Clark said. Love had told his nephew, Charles Webster, that he was in a “killing mood” before the attack, the judge noted.
Love and Webster had arranged to meet the four teenagers, who wanted to obtain marijuana and visit a bar. Webster drove the car with Love in the passenger seat and the four teens in the back. After two failed attempts to buy marijuana, the victims expressed frustration, and Love told them to get out. Love shoved one victim, who told him to stop because she was pregnant. He then opened fire. Love and Webster drove off, but Love directed Webster to circle the block and return, where he shot one of the wounded victims twice more in the head.
Judge Clark cited Love’s lengthy criminal history, which began with an assault at the age of nine. While incarcerated, Love threatened to kill and rape correctional officers, their relatives, and other inmates, including after he pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to four counts: conspiracy to distribute marijuana, discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, being a felon in possession of ammunition, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Webster, now 30, pleaded guilty in December to three counts: conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced in May to 25 years in prison.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Angie Danis and Don Boyce prosecuted the case.
In a separate federal sentencing in Tulsa, Okla., U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill sentenced Thomas Joshua Keizer, 34, of Collinsville, to 300 months — 25 years — in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a child, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. Keizer was ordered to pay $11,000 in restitution and will serve lifetime supervised release upon his release, with mandatory sex-offender registration.
Homeland Security Investigations began investigating Keizer in November 2024 after receiving a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Court documents show Keizer used the social media application Discord to exchange sexually graphic messages with a 12-year-old child. Agents executing a search warrant at his home recovered electronic devices containing 568 images and 11 videos of children being sexually abused, including prepubescent children and toddlers. Investigators also discovered Keizer had hidden a recording device in a bathroom, capturing more than 1,835 images of two additional children under the age of 10 from July 2020 through August 2024. NCMEC identified 13 children whose images had been previously cataloged. U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson announced the sentence. Assistant U.S. Attorney Valeria Luster prosecuted the case, which was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Collinsville Police Department.
In Portland, Ore., U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford announced that Desmond Ray Florez, 34, of Warm Springs, was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release for sexually abusing two minors at a sleepover at his residence on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation on April 13, 2025. Investigators at the Warm Springs Police Department found Florez had also sexually abused one of the victims four years earlier. A federal grand jury in Portland returned a two-count indictment on July 1, 2025, charging Florez with sexual abuse of a minor and sexual abusive contact. He pleaded guilty to both counts on February 19, 2026. The FBI and Warm Springs Police Department investigated the case, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Arin Heinz prosecuting.
All three cases were brought under Project Safe Childhood, the nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. Keizer will remain in custody pending transfer to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.