Ethan Colbert | Post-Dispatch
ST. CHARLES COUNTY -- A St. Charles County jury on Wednesday convicted Christopher Harper of murdering his girlfriend's brother and shooting two others inside a St. Peters home in May 2023.
Harper, who lives in St. Louis, broke into a home in the 1600 block of Country Acres Drive and then fatally shot 57-year-old Darin Gosejohan and injured Gosejohan's 45-year-old wife and teen daughter.
Court documents say the home's security camera showed a large figure walk up the stairs around 1:40 a.m. on May 22, 2023.
The figure -- later identified as Harper -- then ordered the 13-year-old girl to go down the stairs as he held his phone with a flashlight in one hand and a small revolver in the other as he walked back downstairs to Gosejohan's room.
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The security system captured the sounds of yelling and of shots being fired. The video then showed the girl running to the front door in an attempt to escape, court documents said.
The girl was unable to open the locks, so she ran back upstairs. Harper, then left the home, police said.
Gosejohan's wife and daughter survived the shooting.
Gosejohan's wife said Harper had been dating Gosejohan's sister, who had been in a long argument with her brother over family finances. Gosejohan recently got conservatorship over his parents, cutting his sister off from the parents' money and filing to evict her from their house, court documents said.
Gosejohan's sister was interviewed by police and identified Harper as the shooter from the video and identified her blue Ford Focus as the one being driven by Harper that night.
He was later taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action, one count of first-degree burglary, and two counts of first-degree assault.
The trial took six days, and Harper is now set to be sentenced in December.
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