BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — One of two men charged in the 2019 fatal shooting of an Illinois State Police trooper in East St. Louis has changed his not guilty plea. The St. Clair County state’s attorney office says Al Stewart Jr. pleaded guilty Feb. 10 to armed violence, obstructing justice, and possession with intent to…
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Wentzville police officer shot and wounded a 21-year-old man after a car chase late Saturday. The shooting happened after a state trooper tried to stop a vehicle heading south on Highway 61 around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Wentzville Police said an officer who responded noticed a second car that appeared to…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — St. Louis County Police are looking two persons of interest in the theft of a funeral home van with a body inside. Police spokesman Sgt. Benjamin Granda says the van, was stolen yesterday from a Quik Trip in north St. Louis County. The first person of interest is a white male…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — CrimeStoppers along with MetroLink and the City of St. Louis is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a homicide at the Delmar MetroLink station Sunday morning. St. Louis Metropolitan Police say the incident occured around 10 a.m. at the station in the 700…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — $30,000 in reward money is available for tips leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible for the murder of a 7-year-old girl and her father in the Central West End on Sunday. St. Louis Police say Darrion Rankin-Fleming and his daughter Dmyah were fatally shot inside a parked…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A potential aerial surveillance program aimed at helping St. Louis police investigate the city’s soaring violent crime problem has cleared one hurdle. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Board of Aldermen voted 15-14 Friday to give preliminary approval to the measure. It would direct Mayor Lyda Krewson or her successor…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four fatal shootings Christmas Eve brought St. Louis homicide toll for the year within reach of its all-time annual record. Police say at least 257 people have been killed in St. Louis this year, 10 short of the record 267 set in 1993. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that because…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deadly year in St. Louis keeps getting worse, with two more killings adding to the already alarming total. One of the latest victims was shot in July during a robbery at a gas station. Police say 30-year-old Terrance Foster was shot multiple times on July 26. He died Tuesday. Police…
By Glenn Fuselier (KTRS) St. Louis MO St. Louis County Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened at the Drury Inn on Eager Rd. in Richmond Heights. St. Louis County took over the investigation. The shooting reportedly happened after a traffic stop involving Brentwood and Richmond Heights police. No word on the person’s condition.…
(KTRS) St. Louis MO Three separate people and a Family Dollar store were held up by gunpoint in St. Louis during the snow storm Thursday morning. St. Louis Police report that a 16-year-old girl was approached by two men with a gun in the 42 hundred block of Grand overnight. Then around 5 A.M., a…