{"id":5981,"date":"2026-10-16T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/two-plead-guilty-in-cool-valley-gas-station-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:53:03","slug":"two-plead-guilty-in-cool-valley-gas-station-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/two-plead-guilty-in-cool-valley-gas-station-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Plead Guilty in Cool Valley Gas Station Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) Two Missouri men have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old during a marijuana transaction at a Cool Valley gas station in January 2023, bringing a significant development in a murder investigation that involved surveillance footage, cellphone evidence, multiple firearms, and coordinated law enforcement efforts. Christopher \u201cFace\u201d Hall, 25, and Bryant \u201cBJ\u201d Pirtle, 23, entered guilty pleas Thursday, October 15, 2026, during separate hearings in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/two-plead-guilty-in-cool-valley-gas-station-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) Two Missouri men have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old during a marijuana transaction at a Cool Valley gas station in January 2023,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}