AUTHOR: Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
TITLE: 'Poker run' will benefit assault victim left for dead
DATE: 6:05 AM
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<p class="mobile-post">A benefit "poker run" will be held Sunday for Ashley Reeves, the Millstadt
teenager who was left for dead in a Belleville park in April. A poker run is
an organized motorcycle event in which riders stop at designated places
along a route, drawing a card at each to form a poker hand. The rider with
the best hand at the end of the route wins. The event will begin at the
Whistle Stop restaurant and bar, on Main Street in Dupo, and will finish at
Falling Springs, also in Dupo. A hand will cost $5. Three more cards will
cost $10. In late April, police found Reeves partially buried in
Belleville's Citizens Park. Her neck had been snapped and she had been
choked multiple times with a belt. Her former gym teacher, Samson Shelton,
was later charged with attempted murder. He remains under house arrest on
bond.
Reeves was released from the hospital in May after a monthlong stay. She
spent roughly a month in a Maryland Heights rehabilitation facility after
her release and continues to undergo rehabilitation treatment while living
at home.</p>
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