Lemuel Antwan HoustonPolice have charged 22-year-old Lemuel Antwan Houston in the shooting death Tuesday of Centreville police officer Lt. Gregory Jonas. Houston allegedly killed Jonas because he did not want to get booked on a gun charge. Jonas had stopped Houston in the early morning hours outside the Elder Smith Senior Apartments in Centreville while on patrol. Houston is apparently well known to Metro East law officers. He is being held in undisclosed location to ensure his safety. Bond has
Centreville police officer Lt. Gregory Jonas was shot and killed early this morning while patrolling the Ernest Smith Senior Apartments in the Metro East city. Jonas, 58, was in uniform around 2:30 a.m. when someone came up behind the veteran officer and shot him in the back of the head. He died on the scene in the 4700 block of Tudor Avenue.View Centreville Police Officer Murdered Early This Morning, June 2 in a larger mapA resident of the apartment complex told stltoday.com that Jonas was well
Wikimedia CommonsFor the second time this month, a man was shot at the Brooklyn strip club the Pink Slip, the Belleville News-Democrat reports. This time the shooting was not deadly. Details are scarce but here's the rub:A St. Louis man was shot inside a nightclub early Sunday.According to Illinois State Police, a man was shot during a verbal fight at about 3:27 a.m. Sunday inside the Pink Slip Nightclub. The victim was Amos Blanchard, 35, of St. Louis, and he was transported to an area
Image viaIt's one of the oldest tricks in the book for a good thief: create a distraction and strike when your victim is least expecting it.Perhaps with this in mind, an enterprising robber capitalized on a moment when his prey was very preoccupied Sunday eveningThe targets were customers of C-Mowe's and PT's Showclubs, two "gentleman's clubs" in Southern Illinois...
