ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis man has been charged with the robbery and murder of another man last month.

Charging documents filed Sunday accuse Adrian Raynell Washington, 31, of robbing Antoine Bland of cash at gunpoint on Jan. 18, before fatally shooting him.

Police at the time said that the shooting may have been connected to heroin found in Bland's car. They said that Bland had driven three men to a meeting with two other men in an alley in the in the 5000 block of West Florissant Avenue near Bellefontaine Cemetery in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood.

Bland left the car and was shot. His shooter then jumped in the car to drive away, and one of the passengers grabbed a gun and began exchanging shots with Bland's killer, police said.

The passenger was shot in the head and buttocks. The other two passengers were not injured.

Bland, 21, lived in the 1500 block of Eton Lane.

Washington, of the 600 block of Cardinal Avenue, now faces charges of first-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action. He is being held without bond.

This month, Washington was also charged with resisting arrest for a Feb. 9 incident. No lawyers is listed for him in online court documents for either case.

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