Man charged in death of SIUE student; police say they met through Craigslist ad - STLtoday.com
HAZELWOOD • Prosecutors charged a 24-year-old St. Louis man Wednesday night in the fatal shooting two days earlier of Taylor Clark. Gordon is an employee of the MTC truck driver training center in Hazelwood, where Clark’s car and body were found Tuesday. Gordon met Clark, 19, through a Craigslist ad that Clark had placed about the sale of his car, Florissant Police Capt. He said Gordon had been in custody since Tuesday, when his name surfaced from emails found between him and Clark about the red 2007 Nissan 350ZX that Clark had listed for sale on the website. Fagan said police believe Gordon shot Clark on Monday while Gordon was on his lunch hour. Court records say a witness saw Gordon get into the front passenger seat of Clark's car. Clark then drove out of sight, to an abandoned railroad track with only one access point, court records say. Several minutes later, the witness saw Gordon driving Clark's Nissan back to the parking lot, park the car and walk back to his workplace. Clark's body was found "near the abandoned railroad spur, covered with dirt and leaves. “This is a young man who was going to college,” Fagan said of Clark. The red 1990 BMW 325 has license plates FL3Z9K. Source: www.stltoday.com
