Man who said he strangled woman who broke into home charged

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Court records say a St. Louis man who told police he strangled a woman he said broke into and tried to burglarize his home over the weekend had been in a relationship with the woman and was the father of her infant son. Police 46-year-old Samuel Williams and he was charged Monday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the death of 38-year-old Anitra Whitehead. Williams told police he put Whitehead in a chokehold Sunday after she broke into his house. Police found her dead in the home. But Whitehead’s family told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she had keys to the house and that Williams had left a message for Whitehead to come to the home to pick up their 11-month-old son.