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Associated Press - November 8, 2009 8:54 PM ET
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Illinois State Police say a suspect has been arrested in a weekend East St. Louis shooting that killed three women as they sat in a car with kids who managed to escape unharmed.
State Police Lt. James Morrisey says police in St. Louis arrested the suspect tonight at an apartment. His name was not immediately released because there have been no charges filed in the previous day's deadly shooting.
Morrisey says the women were in a car with at least two children at a gas pump last night at the Crown Food Mart when the suspect drove up, exchanged words with 1 of the women and opened fire.
The victims - 26-year-olds Canikia Harvey and Raykel Gathing, and 24-year-old Jaimaca McDaniel - died later at a hospital.
Morrisey says 1 of the women and the suspect were acquaintances.
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