St. Charles County, Missouri prosecutors have filed multiple charges against a 40-year-old Hopkinsville, Kentucky man already facing first-degree murder charges for the death of Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Riley.
The 14 felonies against Ray Tate include vehicle hijacking, robbery, armed criminal action, and kidnapping. They are the result of a truck jacking on I-64 in Wayne County in the area Riley was shot to death and several other carjackings and attempted carjackings in Missouri that followed.
The truck driver carjacked on I-64 successfully got away during a bathroom stop at the Quick Trip in St. Peters, Missouri that led to an attempted carjacking, a successful carjacking, and a third incident where a man was robbed of his vehicle and ordered to drive at gunpoint back to Illinois. Tate eventually forced the owner of a rural Carlyle home into the basement of his home along with the Missouri kidnap victim. They were released unharmed after Tate was taken into custody by a state SWAT team.
No charges have yet been filed in Clinton County in connection with the incident.
Tate is being held on five million dollars bond on the Wayne County murder charge.
Funeral services for Deputy Riley were held Tuesday in Fairfield.
