Lester Robinson

Perez Reed, 26, is charged in Robinson’s Sept. 26 murder and described by the FBI as a possible serial killer. Robinson was fatally shot near a boarded-up residence in a secluded spot in Ferguson on a Sunday morning. Police haven’t divulged a motive or given a connection between Reed and his alleged victims. Reed had cousins in Ferguson and stayed on and off with them on Canfield Drive, not far from the market. Robinson’s family theorizes Robinson was lured to the grassy area between some apartments and robbed of drugs, then killed behind 1710 Barbados Lane. He was shot in the head and hand, in the same “distinctive manner” police said they saw along the serial killer’s trail. An FBI timeline says Robinson was the last of six people shot in the St. Louis area between Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 — and the fourth to die. The killer then shifted his attention to Kansas, where police found a man and woman dead in separate apartments at Wyandotte Towers on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.