Eric Washington

Introduction

Eric Washington is a 48-year-old man from Jennings, Missouri, who was sentenced on October 21, 2026, to 30 years in federal prison for his role as the shooter in a 2023 murder-for-hire plot that killed 53-year-old Andreaia Worthem of St. Louis County. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey imposed the sentence in St. Louis. Washington had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury, alongside Kim Alexis Mosley, who took part in the same plot hatched by the victim’s own son.

Background Information

Around 10 p.m. on July 6, 2023, Washington picked up Worthem from her home in St. Louis County and drove her to St. Louis, where he shot her multiple times. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Martin said during the sentencing hearing that Washington took advantage of Worthem’s drug addiction to gain her compliance and get her to go with him, and that her wounds indicated she tried to defend herself and knew what was going on. After the shooting, Washington left her body in an alley in the 4400 block of Kennerly Avenue, where St. Louis police officers found her early the next morning.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted and sentenced. Washington pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury and was sentenced on October 21, 2026, to 30 years in federal prison. Co-conspirators Andrew C. Hubbard and Kim Alexis Mosley have also pleaded guilty; their sentencings are scheduled for December 2026 and January 2027.

The murder was not random: it came during an attempt by Worthem’s own son, Andrew C. Hubbard, 40, of Maryland Heights, to profit from a $150,000 insurance policy he had obtained on her life. Sometime around June 2023, Hubbard hatched a plan to kill her with cocaine base spiked with a lethal dose of fentanyl or heroin. He discussed the plan with Kim Alexis Mosley, 33, and promised her $50,000 if it succeeded, and he offered his cousin Washington $10,000 to give his mother the drugs.

The drugging plan failed, and Washington turned to a gun. He told Hubbard that the drugs didn’t work and that he had shot Worthem instead. Hubbard paid Washington $450 and gave him cocaine and marijuana as payment — a fraction of the promised $10,000. Washington, impatient over the shortfall, would later call the insurance company himself to ask about the proceeds, saying he had “done some work” for Hubbard — a call that helped tie the shooter directly to the plot and the payout scheme.

Public Reaction and Consequences

At sentencing, Worthem’s sister submitted a letter to the court that read, “My sister was a beautiful, funny, phenomenal and spontaneous woman.” She added that relatives had taken Washington in “as family,” and that “Anytime (Worthem) saw you she gave you hugs” — the victim’s family mourning both the woman and the betrayal by someone they had welcomed into their lives. The case was investigated by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Martin.

Hubbard, the son who orchestrated the plot, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of murder-for-hire, and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 1. Mosley and Washington each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury; Mosley is set to be sentenced on January 20. Washington’s own 30-year term is the first of the three to be imposed.

Current Status

Washington, 48, is serving a 30-year federal prison sentence imposed October 21, 2026, by Judge Henry E. Autrey in St. Louis, following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury. The case is being handled as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods and Operation Take Back America, the Department of Justice’s violent-crime initiatives. His co-conspirators await sentencing: Hubbard on December 1, 2026, and Mosley on January 20, 2027.

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 48, Washington’s 30-year term runs through his late seventies — the price of pulling the trigger in a family’s insurance plot for a $450 payment and drugs. The case record preserves the detail that indicts the whole scheme: a mother shot by a man her family had housed as a relative, on orders from her own son, over a policy worth $150,000. Worthem’s killing and the federal prosecutions that followed removed three people from St. Louis streets — the shooter first, with the son and the intermediary scheduled to follow him into federal prison over the next two months.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri, “Shooter in St. Louis Murder-For-Hire Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison” — source