An escalating feud between two women in Dellwood, a St. Louis suburb, ended with the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Marketta Simpson. The conflict with the alleged shooter, 32-year-old Sha’Miya Watts, had intensified over several days before it turned deadly on Kroeger Avenue.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 6, 2022, police were called to a reported shooting at about 2 p.m. Officers found Simpson inside her vehicle with a gunshot wound to the stomach; she was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Charging documents say multiple witnesses saw Watts lean out of the backseat of a car and fire into Simpson’s vehicle. Police later arrested Watts the same evening in an unincorporated part of St. Louis County; she reportedly admitted to firing into the car and was charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon for shooting into a motor vehicle, and two counts of armed criminal action, held on a $250,000 cash-only bond.

Did anyone in Dellwood or the surrounding area have information about the feud or the events on Kroeger Avenue that afternoon?