COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two women are charged in central Missouri with second-degree murder in connection with a crash along Interstate 70 that killed one of the women’s children and injured two others.
Boone County prosecutors filed the murder count this week against 31-year-old Demetres Washington and 22-year-old Mackenzie Quiovers. Each woman also faces three kidnapping counts. Washington was arrested Friday.
Authorities allege Washington and her friend, Quiovers, lured three of Washington’s children from their home on March 7 as part of a custody dispute and later crashed a car with the children inside.
Washington’s 13-year-old daughter, Shianna Mays, died from her injuries. The two other children are recovering.
A message left Friday with Quiovers’ public defender was not immediately returned. Online court records don’t list an attorney for Washington.