Shootings

Homicide No. 32: Pierre Childs, 16, Shot By Group of Suspects, Found Lying on the Street

The latest homicide victim in St. Louis is one of the youngest of the year so far. St. Louis metro police say that yesterday Pierre Childs, age sixteen, was found lying on the grass between the street and sidewalk at around 5 p.m. after officers received a call for a shooting. He was unconscious ... More >>

Homicide No. 31: Terrance Morgan, 41, Shot Several Times in Head, Found in Alley, Cops Say

Terrance Morgan, 41, is the 31st homicide victim in the city of St. Louis in 2013. Morgan, who lived on Stoddard Street in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood of north St. Louis, was found on the ground in a rear alley at around 5 p.m. yesterday, police say. Witnesses told police that they heard gu ... More >>

Four-Year-Old Girl Hit in Dutchtown Drive-By Shooting, Police Search for Suspect

The most recent victim of gun violence in St. Louis is a four-year-old girl. Police say the girl, hit by bullets last night, was not the intended target, but got caught up in gunfire from a drive-by shooting. The incident took place last night around 7:30 p.m. on Louisiana Avenue in the city's Du ... More >>

St. Louis Criminals Took Most of the Weekend Off, Just Like Us

The Labor Day Weekend started off quietly on the crime front, although whether it was because of the holiday, the rainy weather or just a coincidence remains open for debate.That all changed in a 24-hour period starting Sunday afternoon, as three shootings in that span sent three people to the hospi ... More >>

Two More Shootings on Labor Day Bring the Holiday to Bloody, Non-Fatal Close

An additional pair of shootings was reported to St. Louis Police on Monday, bringing a wet holiday weekend to a bloody end. At 6 p.m. Monday, police report that a 16-year-old black young man was stopped by a pair of black young men on bicycles in the 3700 block of Penrose Street in the Fairground Pa ... More >>

Shooter Opens Fire on Goodfellow Boulevard, Injuring Two

Three people were injured Sunday afternoon when a man opened fire in the 900 block of Goodfellow Boulevard in the West End. A 51-year-old black man told police he was driving north on Goodfellow when he heard shots, simultaneously with his windshield exploding. His car suffered further damage to the ... More >>

Seven People Shot in Five Separate Incidents on Sunday

Police had a busy Sunday throughout St. Louis City, as seven people were shot in five separate incidents. In the most serious incident, a 25-year-old black man was shot multiple times while in the parking lot of White Castle at 3524 North Kingshighway in the Kingsway East neighborhood at 11:30 p.m. ... More >>

Three Shootings In the City Monday Night

Three people are hospitalized this morning after being shot in three separate incidents last night. In the earliest incident, an 18-year-old black man was walking at 13th Street and Cass Avenue in the edge of the Columbus Square neighborhood at 6:25 p.m. when he heard gunshots and took off running. ... More >>

Two Shootings in St. Louis Sunday Night

Police were called out to deal with two shootings last night, although in the first instance the victim wanted nothing to do with the police. The uncooperative victim is an 18-year-old black man, who would not tell police how he was injured nor would he tell them where he was when he was shot. Witne ... More >>

Tracy D. Jones: St. Louis Homicide No. 23; Shot in A Car

Tracy D. Jones, 47, was inside a car with an unidentified 56-year-old black woman in the 1500 block of Whittier Avenue last night when unknown suspects opened fire on them. Jones was shot in the chest and back, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was shot in the thigh, and was treated an ... More >>

Two Separate Shootings Friday Night

​The Delmar Loop was not the only part of the city where shots were shots were fired  this weekend. Just around 9:30 p.m. Friday night, an unidentified 20-year-old black man was dropped off at an area hospital with multiple gunshot injuries. Witnesses tell police the victim was shot by two bl ... More >>

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Three Shootings in the City Sunday Night

​St. Louis Metropolitan Police were kept busy Sunday night with three separate shooting incidents in just more than six hours. Fortunately, no one was killed. But there's a numbing similarity in all three cases that doesn't portend well for this summer; if the shootings jump up on the first warm n ... More >>

Victim Fatally Felled By Police Bullet

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has reported that police officers and at least one suspect exchanged gunfire over the weekend, resulting in a man's death. On Friday evening St. Louis police shot dead Jordan Walls, nineteen, of the 4900 block of Terry Avenue. In addition the police sho ... More >>

Dominic Johnson: St. Louis Homicide No. 17; Shot Outside Sports Bar

​Dominic Johnson, a 27-year-old black male, was found shot to death outside the Starz Sports Bar and Grill (8700 block of Goodfellow Boulevard; pictured above) in the North Pointe neighborhood Monday night just after midnight.According to police documents, St. Louis Police responded to a report of ... More >>

Brian McCuller: St. Louis Homicide No. 110; Teen Shot on North Grand

Bad weekend for North Grand. Early Saturday morning a woman was gunned down in the 3100 block of north St. Louis thoroughfare. On Sunday morning it was an 18-year-old teen shot to death a few block south in the 2500 block of N. Grand (below). ​According to police, Brian McCuller was with a gr ... More >>

Michael Brown: St. Louis Homicide No. 79; Teenager Murdered in Penrose

​Sixteen-year-old Michael Brown of the 5000 block of St. Louis Avenue was found shot to death in the Penrose Neighborhood of north city early yesterday morning. St. Louis police report that they arrived to the 4500 block of Margaretta to find Wilson lying dead in the middle of the street from guns ... More >>

Guns Claim Two More Children in St. Louis Region

"From an infant's cold, dead hands!"​A ten-year-old Belleville boy accidentally shot and killed his five-year-old brother yesterday while playing with a shotgun kept in the home. An "extremely tragic accident" is how Belleville police chief William Clay described the incident. A day earlier -- Tu ... More >>

Man Shot in Broad Daylight in North City

The 2800 block of Sarah, where a 42-year-old man was shot after an attempted mugging yesterday.​A 42-year-old man was shot around 4:30 p.m. yesterday in the 2800 block of Sarah, which is near Vandeventer and St. Louis Avenue in north city.He told police that he was heading north on Sarah when thre ... More >>

Gunfire Strikes University City -- Again

For the third time in the past month, gunfire has disrupted innocent lives in University City. The latest incident occurred Wednesday night when unknown gunmen exchanged as many as twenty shots in the University Commons apartment complex in the 1400 block of North Drive (below).​The gunfire left c ... More >>

Zachary Simmons: St. Louis Homicide No. 64; 50-Year-Old Shot in Baden Neighborhood

Police had few clues yesterday in the shooting death of Zachary Simmons. Simmons, of the 3000 block of Washington in Midtown, was visiting a home in the 900 block of Riverview when he was shot multiple times around 7 p.m. Monday.​Witnesses say they saw Simmons talking to the suspect -- described a ... More >>

Dutchtown Man in Serious Condition After Interrupting Burglar

The 3700 block of Delor, where a 28-year-old man was shot several times last night.​A 28-year-old man is in serious condition after interrupting a gun-toting burglar trying to break into his neighbor's apartment last night.The man, whose name is being withheld by police, was at his home in the 370 ... More >>

Murder Vigil Disrupted By Gunfire, Attendee Struck By Camaro

A vigil honoring Michael Pankins, a 24-year-old man from north county shot dead Sunday in north St. Louis, turned violent yesterday evening.The scene of last night's shooting at Thekla and Riverview. ​According to police, a crowd was holding a candlelight vigil around 8 p.m. Wednesday in north St. ... More >>

Michael Pankins: Victim Shot Dead in Car in North St. Louis

A 24-year-old man is dead after being shot in the head yesterday evening in the 5900 block of Lillian (below) in north St. Louis. ​The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reports that Michael Pankins was a passenger in a car when he was shot around 6 p.m. Sunday. The driver of the vehicle tra ... More >>

St. Louis: Five Shot In Separate Incidents Sunday in North City

All five shootings occurred within about a mile of each other.​Five people were wounded in five separate shootings that played out over the course of several hours yesterday in north St. Louis. View interactive map of the shootings.The violence began around 4:40 p.m., when a victim described as a ... More >>

Two Dead After Gangland Shooting Disrupts Funeral of Homicide Victim

St. Louis police report that four people were shot today while attending the funeral of David Davis, a 27-year-old man gunned down in north city last week. The shooting occurred around noon outside the Reliable Funeral Home at 3964 Washington Boulevard (below) in midtown St. Louis.​Two of the shoo ... More >>

Dwayne Scales: St. Louis Homicide No. 111; Killed in Gun Battle That Wounded Two Others

Twenty-four-year-old Dwayne Scales was discovered dead from a gunshot wound Saturday evening in the 5700 block of Theodore (below). ​Police report that Scales and several other men were involved in an argument that turned violent as it spilled out of a home in the Walnut Park East neighborhood aro ... More >>

Jeffrey Stewart Jr.: St. Louis Homicide No. 109; Shot Outside Home in North City

Twenty-five-year-old Jeffrey Stewart Jr. was outside his home in the 5900 block of Era Avenue in north St. Louis last night when he was shot in the chest. Witnesses saw a man run east across the railroad tracks following the shooting.​The shooting occurred around 5:50 p.m. with neighbors telling S ... More >>

Samuel Lee: St. Louis Homicide No. 103; Shot While Driving on Drury Lane

A 16-year-old boy succumbed to gunshot wounds yesterday -- four days after being shot in north St. Louis. ​Samuel Lee was driving with two other friends near the intersection of Drury and Gladys (above) at around 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 27, when the car in front of them stopped and a suspect exi ... More >>

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Calvin Robinson: St. Louis Homicide No. 80; Shot in Chest in South City

Gunfire lit up the south St. Louis neighborhood of Gravois Park Saturday night. The first shooting occurred around 9:10 p.m. at the intersection of Minnesota and Potomac (below). ​That's where police found Calvin Robinson, 22, lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his chest and a pistol by h ... More >>

Jermaine Money: St. Louis Homicide No. 76; Assassinated in McRee Town

Jermaine Money, 25, of the 10000 block of Baron, was found shot to death Friday morning in the McRee Town neighborhood of central St. Louis. ​St. Louis police report that Money was shot in the head and chest in the 4100 block of Blaine around 2:48 a.m. August 27. He was taken to a local hospital a ... More >>

Kenneth Roberts: St. Louis Homicide No. 72; Killed in Violent Night of Gunplay

One man is dead and five other are hospitalized with gunshot wounds after four separate shootings in St. Louis over the past 24 hours.​The first shooting occurred yesterday afternoon around 3:35 p.m. in the 4700 block of Louisiana (above). That's where St. Louis police report that 44-year-old Kenn ... More >>

Five Injured in Two Separate Shootings in Downtown St. Louis Today

St. Louis police are investigating two shootings today within several blocks of each other in downtown St. Louis -- one of which sent a bullet spilling into a bank where it grazed a woman. The first shooting occurred around 12:52 this morning when three people -- described by police as black males a ... More >>

South County Shooting Spree Leads to Three Arrests in Metro East

Three men are in custody on suspicion of shooting two men late last night and early this morning in the south St. Louis County. The first shooting occurred neary Jefferson Barracks Park. The second shooting followed minutes later at Baumgartner and Telegraph.​According to St. Louis County Police ... More >>

Marcus Blue & Jeremy Davis: East St. Louis Homicides No. 8 & 9; Shot During Memorial Day Domestic Disputes

Marcus Blue, a 23-year-old from Belleville, was shot to death Tuesday night at 1235 Boisemenue Ave, in East St. Louis. View Larger MapPolice were called to the residence at 12:48 a.m. when Blue attempted to enter the home, which belonged to his ex-girlfriend. Her new boyfriend, another 23-year-old ... More >>

Darlene Noble: St. Louis Homicide No. 44; Unintended Victim in Gangland Killing

Darlene Noble was outside her home in the 4300 block of Lee Avenue in north St. Louis around 11:20 yesterday morning when a gunman opened fire.The 4300 block of Lee as viewed from N. Newstead Avenue.​

Shooting in Shrewsbury Sounds Fishy; Police Mum on Investigation

Shrewsbury police are providing scant details about an incident Tuesday night in which a woman claimed she was shot by a home intruder. The alleged attack occurred around 11:30 p.m. in the quaint block of 7400 Devonshire, a neighborhood where the most egregious crime usually occurs when someone lets ... More >>

Jamarco Anthony: Alton Man Murdered Celebrating His Birthday; Brother Also Shot

Jamarco A. Anthony lived to see his 24th birthday but not by much. Anthony and friends were celebrating his birthday Saturday night at a former VFW Hall in Alton when the party ended in gunfire.The former VFW post at 300 E. Elm in Alton where Anthony was fatally shot.​The shooting occurred around ... More >>

Maurice Greenwood, St. Louis Homicide No. 27; Shot Following Argument

Maurice Greenwood was shot and killed last night around 10:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Eichelberger in south city where he lived. Google Street View800 block of Eichelberger​Greenwood, described as a black 50-year-old male, was allegedly shot in the chest by a suspect who police describe as a 28-y ... More >>

Club Casino Fined $1,000, Liquor License Suspended After Fatal Shooting

Club Casino, the popular East St. Louis nightspot that was the scene of a fatal shooting Saturday, was fined $1,000 by mayor and liquor commissioner Alvin Parks at a hearing yesterday afternoon. The club's liquor license was also suspended for 30 days.Illinois State Police are still investigating th ... More >>

Police Release Names of Victims Killed in Bloody Rampage at North St. Louis Factory

As reported last night, St. Louis police say four people, including the gunman, died yesterday in a deadly assault at the ABB Incorporated plant in north St. Louis. Five others were taken to the hospital where as of last night two remained in critical condition and two more in fair condition. A fift ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Gunmen Attack North City Dice Game -- One Dead, Three Wounded

Street gambling turned deadly last night in the 2800 block of Hadley in St. Louis -- just a few blocks from a popular north city restaurant. St. Louis police say the victims were playing a "dice game" outside a residence near the intersection of Hadley and Wright streets when "at least three black m ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Maggie O'Brien's Bartender Killed in Violent Night That Leaves Three Dead

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reports this morning that three people died from gunshot wounds in the city last night. Two of the deaths -- involving the murder of a downtown St. Louis bartender -- may be related. Police say that around 11:45 p.m. last night a white male bartender in h ... More >>

The Big Bloody: 15-Year-Old Killed Saturday in Drive-By Shooting

Brion Kimble was sitting in a vehicle Saturday night in the 4100 block of St. Louis Avenue when he was struck by gunfire from a passing auto. Kimble, 15, of the 4000 block of Aldine Avenue in north city, died at the scene. A second victim, a man in his 30s, was shot in the head and is in critical co ... More >>

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