ST. LOUIS — Prosecutors have charged a St. Louis man with killing one woman in her home, then raping a second woman while children were nearby.

Freddie Lee Sawyer was held Wednesday in the St. Louis jail without bond. He is accused in the shooting death Sunday of 44-year-old Robyn Jones in the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Jones had invited Sawyer to her home in the 4400 block of Minnesota Avenue. They were downstairs in the kitchen listening to music, and Sawyer shot her in the back of the head, killing her, court documents said.

Jones died at the scene. Police have not disclosed a possible motive for the attack.

After the shooting, Sawyer went upstairs, hit another woman in the face repeatedly and raped her at gunpoint while two children, ages 5 and 16, were nearby, police said

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