09-01-2011, 04:32 PM
A young mother shot dead her two children last night before getting in her car and mowing down another man and his three-year-old boy, police said.
Yokeia Smith, 25, was arrested in St Louis, Missouri, waving around a large shotgun after stepping out of her car on the side of a main road.
Miss Smith is now being held for questioning by authorities over the brutal murder of her children.
Police were called to the shooting at a multi-unit building at just after 6pm last night and arrived to find two of Miss Smith's three children dead.
Yokela Smith, 4, and Levada Brown, 5, had been shot, while a third child, 8, was also in the apartment but was unharmed.