ST. LOUIS • The mother of a teenage murder suspect has been accused of orchestrating two follow-up murders to eliminate witnesses against her son.

Latashia Mopkins, 38, is among five people, including her son, who are charged with multiple counts of murder, conspiracy and other offenses in three murders that took place between September 2013 and April 2014. The charges are listed in St. Louis Circuit Court grand jury indictments that were made public Wednesday against the defendants, all of whom are held in jail without bail.

Mopkins, of the 4100 block of Delor Street, is accused of two counts of murder, tampering with a witness to a felony and other offenses.

The complicated tale begins with the murder on Sept. 27, 2013, of Chauncey Brown, 16, who was found shot to death the morning after a confrontation outside a youth club on Martin Luther King Drive. At the time, police said Brown and a few others left the club and were followed by five people in a car who opened fire.