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CAHOKIA HEIGHTS — Prosecutors in St. Clair County have charged three men in connection with a series of three weekend shootouts that killed one teenage boy and injured another.

The deadly gunfire came in three separate shooting attacks, all before 7 p.m. Saturday in Cahokia Heights, police said. Two 15-year-old boys were hit by bullets. One of them, Charles E. Jones of Cahokia Heights, died at a hospital of his injuries.

According to court records in St. Clair County, three men are charged with aggravated discharge of a weapon for the Cahokia Heights shooting. They are Deontrez Mosley, 18; Xavier Lacey, 19; and Dontae Jackson, 21.  Lacey and Jackson live in Cahokia Heights. Mosley lives in Centreville.

The St. Clair County State's Attorney filed charges on Wednesday.

Lacey and Mosley fired shots at a home on Lazarcheff Drive, knowing it was occupied, according to the charging documents. And Jackson fired at a 2017 Nissan Altima, knowing people were in the car, prosecutors said. The Nissan was stolen, and Mosley faces an additional charge of possession of a stolen vehicle.

Officers with the Cahokia Police Department and the Major Case Squad followed more than 80 leads during their five-day investigation. Police provided new details Friday morning, revealing that investigators determined there were three shootouts within a 45-minute stretch that Saturday night, Feb. 22.

They came between 6:15 and 7 p.m. in the neighborhood behind Rally's, in the 1600 block of Camp Jackson Road.

In the first, Dontae Jackson and an 18-year-old man were walking as a Nissan approached them. One of the pedestrians exchanged gunshots with people in the Nissan near Kenneth Avenue and Armand Drive, police said.

After the shooting, the pedestrians returned to a home in the 100 block of Lazarcheff Drive. And the occupants of the Nissan took Charles Jones, the 15-year-old boy, to a nearby hospital and dropped him off. Charles had been shot once and would die two days later from his injuries.

After the hospital run, the Nissan returned to Lazarcheff Drive. People in the car exchanged shots with Dontae Jackson and the same 18-year-old who had been walking with Jackson earlier. A boy in the Nissan was struck by gunfire but survived. He was the second 15-year-old to be shot that night. (Police have not released the name or medical condition of the boy who survived.)

A short time later, the occupants of the Nissan returned to Lazarcheff but in a different car, an Infiniti Q50. They exchanged more gunfire with people on the block. This time, no one was hit.

Police recovered both cars used in the shootings. The cars had been stolen from Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ.