Ashley Marie Townsend

On a Wednesday afternoon in St. Louis, 27-year-old Ashley Marie Townsend was fatally shot in a double homicide. The incident occurred shortly before 2:30 p.m. on April 2, 2014. Townsend and a companion, 35-year-old Michael Hennings, were sitting in a parked car in the 1900 block of Belt Avenue when they were gunned down.

Both Townsend and Hennings sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body. They were pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting. Witnesses reported that the sus ...