ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis man was charged today in the August killing of a woman in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant.

Christopher K. Spates, 20, of the 4800 block of Cote Brilliante Avenue, is being held without bail on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Angie Young, 36, of the 5700 block of Hamilton Avenue, was fatally shot Aug. 23 on the lot of a White Castle restaurant at Natural Bridge Avenue and Kingshighway, St. Louis police said.

Young was shot several times about 11:35 p.m. as she sat in a parked car. She died at a hospital.

After the shooting, witnesses told police a man in his late 20s or early 30s fired several shots into Young's car.