Missouri woman arrested for killing carjackers who stole her car

Police arrested a Missouri woman after she killed two men outside a gas station for the alleged theft of her stolen car.
Demesha Coleman, 35, was charged Thursday with two counts of murder, one count of assault, and three counts of armed criminal action after shooting and killing Darius Jackson, 19, and Joseph Farrar, 49.
Farrar was found next to a gas pump with a gunshot to the torso and Jackson was found on the ground next to the car, also shot in the torso.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a third man was shot in the head during the shootout but survived. If any of the three men stole the vehicle, it remains unclear which one.
After examining surveillance footage, police said that Coleman approached a Hyundai Tucson at a St. Louis Speedie Gas station Wednesday night with a man who was also carrying a weapon. Coleman opened the door with her gun raised and started shooting.
“I went to the gas station to recover my stolen vehicle,” Coleman told detectives during a recorded interview. She had no history of criminal activity.
She is from the Spanish Lake area of St. Louis County.
After a TikTok trend showed users how to use a USB cable to hot wire the vehicles, thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles have spiked this year. A class-action lawsuit against the carmakers was prompted by the number of thefts that police and parents have attributed to this trend.
“It’s very easy, unfortunately, to steal,” Buffalo Police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said in October while addressing the deaths of four teenagers who had allegedly stolen a Kia Sportage and crashed it in upstate New York, the Independent reported.
“The information that’s been put out there is available for you to look up,” Gramaglia continued. “There are numerous cities across the country that are looking at or have filed lawsuits against Kia because of the ease with which their cars can be stolen.”