The Rolla Daily News
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that a 20-year-old man and 29-year-old woman had been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 36-year-old St. James man, who police found dead from apparent knife wounds in the parking lot of the Economy Inn Motel in St. James.
Around 8:06 a.m. Wednesday, deputies with the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department responded to the Economy Inn Motel in St. James after receiving a report for what police later determined was a homicide, according to the sheriff’s department Thursday.
During the initial investigation, law enforcement found a white male, later identified as 36-year-old Donald Wethy Jr., of St. James, dead from apparent knife wounds in the motel parking lot.
The Rolla Daily News
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department said they ve arrested a man and a woman in connection with a homicide at the Economy Inn in St. James.
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department, in a Facebook post Wednesday, said deputies were assisting the St. James Police Department with a homicide, where a man was killed at the Economy Inn in St. James Wednesday.
The sheriff’s department said during the investigation, police identified a 20-year-old male and a 29-year-old female as suspects, and the information was disseminated to law enforcement and the public through the Everbridge notification system.