Shooter Gets 30 Years in St. Louis Murder-for-Hire Plot Over a $150,000 Life Insurance Policy
Eric Washington shot Andreaia Worthem in 2023 after her son planned to kill her for a $150,000 insurance policy, federal prosecutors said.
The man who shot and killed a St. Louis County woman in 2023, in a plot her own son set up to collect on her life insurance, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Eric Washington, 48, of Jennings, Missouri, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said. Washington had pleaded guilty in July 2026 to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury.
A policy taken out in 2019
Andrew C. Hubbard applied for a $150,000 insurance policy on his mother, Andreaia Worthem, in April 2019, according to plea agreements described in a Sept. 22, 2026, release from the same office.
Around June 2023, Hubbard planned to kill her with cocaine base spiked with a lethal dose of fentanyl or heroin, prosecutors said. He discussed the plan with Kim Alexis Mosley and promised her $50,000 if it worked. He offered his cousin, Washington, $10,000 to give his mother the drugs.
“It’s done”
Around 10 p.m. on July 6, 2023, Washington picked Worthem up at her home in St. Louis County and drove her to St. Louis, where he shot her multiple times, prosecutors said. He left her body in an alley in the 4400 block of Kennerly Avenue. Just after 11 p.m., he called Hubbard and said, “It’s done,” according to the September release. He later told Hubbard the drugs hadn’t worked, so he shot her instead.
Police found Worthem, 53, in the alley early the next morning. Prosecutors said Washington used her drug addiction to get her to go with him, and that her wounds showed she tried to defend herself.
Hubbard paid Washington $450 plus cocaine and marijuana. Impatient for the promised $10,000, Washington later called the insurance company to ask about the payout, saying he had “done some work” for Hubbard, prosecutors said.
In a letter to the court, Worthem’s sister wrote that the family had taken Washington in “as family.” “My sister was a beautiful, funny, phenomenal and spontaneous woman,” she wrote.
What happens next
Hubbard, 40, of Maryland Heights, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire and is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1, 2026. Mosley, 33, pleaded guilty to the same charge as Washington and is set to be sentenced on Jan. 20, 2027, prosecutors said. The case is United States v. Hubbard, No. 4:23-cr-00562.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI investigated the case.
