A St Joseph man who pleaded guilty to murder charges Thursday was charged on Friday with assault for another shooting a month earlier that left a local woman in critical condition.

Buchanan County prosecutors filed the new case against Calvin Ford Jr., 24, in connection with the shooting of Genea Weston.

 

Weston was found in a car at 15th and Angelique shortly before midnight on October 25th, 2010.

A month later, on November 30th, Ford fatally shot 18-year-old Jordan Bartram during a drive by shooting in the 2900 block of Lafayette.

Armon Thompson, 22, also faces charges faces in Ms. Bartram’s death and the shooting of Ms. Weston.

Ford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Bartram homicide.  She was sitting in a car outside a home in the 2900 block of Lafayette when she was shot.

Ford told Circuit Judge Dan Kellogg that he fired at the home, not the car. He said he didn’t know anyone was sitting in the car.

He remains in custody pending formal arraignment on the new charge. Ford will be sentenced for the murder on June 28.