A seventeen-year-old has been charged as an adult in the shocking murder of a grandfather, who was killed in an attempted carjacking in February in the Tower Grove South neighborhood.Richard Donaldson, who was sixteen at the time, was taken into custody and held in a juvenile detention center two days after 72-year-old Kenneth Spalter was gunned down in the 3800 block of Juniata Street. Police investigating an earlier carjacking were able to tie him to the fatal shooting, authorities say.
On Friday, a judge certified Donaldson, who lives in Spanish Lake, to stand trial as an adult on a string of charges: second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident and stealing.
Spalter was from Pound Ridge, New York — about 50 miles north of New York City.…