Johnnie Pulley, Jr.Yesterday we reported how the rate of teenage homicides in St. Louis isn't falling as fast as the overall decline in murders this year. And true to form, the second half of 2009 (which began yesterday, July 1) started out with a fresh teen homicide. This one, though, was somewhat unusual because of the age of the gunman. Police say 60-year-old Johnnie Pulley Jr. gunned down 17-year-old Brandon Colenburg in cold blood yesterday in the 700 block of North Union Blvd. (near the in
Fans of The Wire (the epic HBO series about life and crime in Baltimore) know that St. Louis shares more than a few similarities with the (mostly) fictional show.Much of this can be attributed to the twin troubles of Baltimore and St. Louis -- inner-city drug crimes, huge numbers of vacant houses, failing public schools, political bureaucracy, and a police department that constantly seems to shoot itself in the foot -- that the show so vividly and realistically portrays.But the story y
