In Missouri, two men have been charged with the alleged kidnapping, assault, and murder of an 18-year-old woman. According to court documents, the suspects restrained the victim by gagging her with socks and tying her up before committing the crime with the assistance of a third man.

On November 3, suspect Kennan Peoples sent a text message to his co-suspect, Donald Peoples Jr., stating, “Playing with a woman tonight,” referring to Kaniah Jennings, the victim who was abducted that same evening by Kennan and another suspect, Blake Patrick, as detailed in a probable cause statement.

Jennings was declared missing on November 4 in Pemiscot County. According to a police press release, she was last seen in Hayti the night before.

The charges against Kennan Peoples and Patrick include abducting Jennings from her home in Portageville and detaining her at a house that Kennan shared with Donald Peoples. Authorities report that Patrick spoke with police about the events that unfolded.

According to court documents, “While at the residence, suspect Blake Patrick described both he and Kennan Peoples as engaging in sexual acts with Jennings.” Patrick further recounted that during the assault, Kennan Peoples gagged Jennings with socks. He also noted that Jennings was subsequently tied up and had a blanket placed over her head.

While this was going on, Kennan Peoples allegedly began texting Donald Peoples about what was happening. “Hey take your sweet time getting home,” he texted, according to the probable cause statement.

After allegedly telling him about “playing with a woman,” cops say Donald Peoples texted, “Lord How [sic] mercy lol well thats the purpose of having your own end of the house. Do your thang, where did the lil white boy go, did you let him stay.”

Kennan Peoples and Patrick allegedly left the residence to go get gas in a Nissan Frontier with Jennings in the backseat, still tied up with a blanket over her head. He pumped $20 worth of gas that Patrick sent to himself using Jennings”s Cash App account from her cellphone, according to the probable cause statement.

After getting gas, the two men allegedly drove back to Jennings’s home in Portageville to place her cellphone “on the ground near her residence,” police say. They then drove back to the home that Kennan Peoples shared with Donald Peoples and found him sitting on the couch as they walked in with Jennings “still having her hands bound and a blanket over her head,” according to cops.

“Patrick describes Kennan as taking Jennings to a bedroom and raping her,” the probable cause statement alleges. “During this time, Patrick states that Jennings was still alive, but in ‘bad shape.’ Patrick states that he became very scared and left the residence, stealing the Frontier and going straight to Arkansas.”

Cops say Jennings died sometime between the evening of Nov. 3 and morning of Nov. 4, with Donald and Kennan Peoples remaining at the residence “the duration of the night with Jennings still at the residence, believed to be deceased,” according to the probable cause statement. The two men eventually moved Jennings’s body to an area in “rural Pemiscot County,” a police press release says, where it was found on Friday.

Authorities followed up on numerous leads and obtained surveillance video linking Kennan Peoples, Donald Peoples and Patrick to Jennings’s disappearance. The trio was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with multiple crimes.

Kennan Peoples is facing charges of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape and tampering with evidence; Donald Peoples is charged with first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence; Patrick is charged with first-degree accessory to murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape.

All three men are due in court on Monday for their arraignments.