ST. LOUIS, MO (October 25, 2024) — St. Louis Circuit Judge Clinton R. Wright gave Carlas Closson Jr., 31, two four-year suspended sentences and 120 days prison shock time for causing a car accident that killed his former girlfriend and their one-year-old daughter on March 6, 2021, at the Halls Ferry Circle intersection in the city’s Baden neighborhood.

After a bench trial before Judge Wright in August, Closson was found not guilty of two counts of armed criminal action in the deaths of Domonique Hicks, 28, and one-year-old Damonnie Hicks. In September, Closson was found guilty of two counts of second-degree involuntary manslaughter.

Shortly after midnight on March 6, 2021, Closson was driving Hicks’s 2006 PT Cruiser at a speed of more than 60 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone on a stretch of road approaching the Halls Ferry traffic circle. After running a stop sign, the vehicle hit a curb, became airborne and hit two trees in the center of the traffic circle. The collision caused the death of Hicks and her infant daughter, who was in an improperly secured in the back seat. Closson’s driver’s license was suspended at the time of the collision.

Closson’s case number is 2322-CR02629-01.

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