The Aurora-Marionville. Mo. Police Department (AMPD) is investigating a homicide after a woman turned herself in in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 23.
According to a probable cause statement, Taylor Santiago, 32, was charged with multiple charges including first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, unlawful use of a weapon, and first-degree endangerment of a child.
On Jan. 23, arrived at the Aurora Police and Fire Facility at around 1:45 a.m. and called from the parking lot, saying that she had killed her estranged husband, Troy Huffman, at her home.
When officers arrived at the apartment, they found Huffman deceased. Santiago invited her husbandto her home “under the pretenses of seeing a child,” a 12-year-old boy, investigators said.
AMPD Chief Wes Coatney says that Santiago allegedly shot Huffman several times with a .38 caliber revolver and that a child was inside the home at the time of the shooting.
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AMPD said Santiago also disclosed to police that she had driven to Arkansas earlier and shot two additional people, including the biological father of one of her children, who was also home at the time of the Carroll County shooting.
The female Arkansas victim died and her ex was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. Neither of those victims have been publicly identified.
