A St. Louis County man has admitted to shooting four teenagers in St. Louis in 2023, resulting in the deaths of two women and a baby. Eddie Marcus Love, 38, pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to four felony charges: 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.
According to court documents, the incident occurred on May 6, 2023. One victim contacted Love to arrange for her and her friends to be picked up so they could buy marijuana and visit a bar. Charles Webster, Love’s co-defendant, drove the group while Love sat in the passenger seat; the victims were seated in the back.
After unsuccessful attempts to purchase marijuana, tensions rose between Love and the victims. Near the 1900 block of Agnes Street, Love ordered them out of the car and shoved one woman who told him she was pregnant. Armed with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, Love began shooting as they walked away—killing two 18-year-old women and wounding two others aged 17.
Love then instructed Webster to drive around the block before he shot one wounded victim twice more in the head. That victim was ten weeks pregnant but her child survived uninjured. The other wounded woman was thirty weeks pregnant; her baby was delivered by emergency C-section but died about a month later due to gunshot wounds.
Investigators searched Love’s home on May 12, 2023, finding evidence that included clothing worn during the shooting, spent cartridge casings matching those at the scene, three firearms with magazines and ammunition (which he is prohibited from possessing as a convicted felon), as well as shoes stained with blood containing DNA from one victim.
Webster previously pleaded guilty in December to three related charges: conspiracy to knowingly possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance; conspiracy to possess a firearm during drug trafficking; and being a felon in possession of a firearm. His sentencing is set for May.
Love’s sentencing is scheduled for June 11. The U.S. Attorney’s Office plans to recommend fifty years imprisonment.
The case was investigated by both the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Angie Danis and Don Boyce are prosecuting.
