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KSP says 18-year-old Ambrea R.J. Shanks of Florissant, Missouri, has been charged with first degree hindering prosecution or apprehension regarding the shooting death of Trooper Joseph Ponder. The trooper was shot after conducting a traffic stop, when the suspect — Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks — fled before allegedly shooting the trooper. State police say Shanks was a passenger in Johnson-Shanks' vehicle and is his niece. There were three other passengers in the vehicle at the time of the traffic stop: a 22-year-old woman and two children under the age of 6. State police say the children were released to a relative.