Charles Yoder

The East St. Louis Housing Authority reported in mid-September that two men had been stabbed, including one fatally, in the 1400 block of Missouri Avenue at the Orr-Weathers building, but the names, ages and hometowns of the two victims were not released at that time. A spokesman for the housing authority could not be reached for comment after charges were filed. Jerry L. Campbell, 47, was arrested in St. Louis last week, and on Wednesday, he waived his right to a detention hearing on two counts of first-degree murder in St. Clair County, according to court records. Charging documents allege Campbell, of the first block of Kansas Avenue in Belleville, fatally stabbed Charles Yoder with a knife on Sept. 18. Campbell was also indicted on charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the stabbing of Harold Sutterer. A mob action charge alleges that Campbell, “while acting together” with Yoder, stabbed Sutterer. Court records do not list the location of where the stabbings of Yoder and Sutterer occurred, but note that an Illinois State Police agent presented the case to a grand jury in October.