ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man who was freed from jail while awaiting trial in a rape case has been charged with killing a neighbor this week.
Antione Miller 48, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and other felonies in the shooting death of Damon Hill, 65, in a north St. Louis neighborhood, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Witnesses told police Miller shot Hill and another person who were sitting inside a car, according to court documents. A motive was not released.
No attorney was listed for Miller in court records. He was being held without bail.
Miller was released from jail in 2019 after a federal judge ordered city judges to start holding hearings on defendants’ ability to pay before setting bail. Miller had been in prison since 2017, unable to pay his $75,000 bail, after he was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in September 2016.
He had previous convictions for unlawful use of a weapon in 1995 and second-degree drug trafficking in 1996. He was given two years’ probation for each conviction.
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