St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Students continue to raise their voices against gun violence. Students across the country, including in the St. Louis area, will participate in another National School Walkout Day Friday at 10 a.m. Students Demand Action St. Louis will also hold a demonstration outside of the downtown office of Attorney General Josh Hawley this…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Suspects are being sought after three people were shot at nightclub in downtown St. Louis. Police say the shooting happened around 11:30 p.m.Wednesday outside of The Mood Lounge at 20th and Locust. None of the victims suffered life threatening injuries. The shooting reportedly stemmed from a fight.
By MATTHEW BARAKAT and JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A teenager with a handgun shot a girl inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with a school resource officer, a sheriff said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the shooter took his own life or…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Police have been busy over the weekend after multiple shootings. Police say a 21-year-old woman was driving when she was grazed by a bullet on Kingshighway and Natural Bridge in north St. Louis around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The victim suffered minor injuries. Around 10:30 p.m., a man and a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Activists used the President’s visit to the St. Louis area on Wednesday to voice their concerns on several issues, with gun control at the top of their list. Brian Wingbermuehle of Students Demand Action St. Louis, was among those who attended the protest in Frontenac, where President Trump was attending a…
By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students from…
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As schools around the country brace for student walkouts following the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, principals and superintendents are scrambling to perform a delicate balancing act: How to let thousands of students exercise their First Amendment rights while not disrupting school and not pulling administrators into…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham closed one of its largest schools for a thorough safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom where one 17-year-old was fatally shot and another wounded in an apparent accident. Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A two-year-old girl is recovering after being shot while traveling in a vehicle on I-70 in St. Louis. Police say the child was shot in the leg on Saturday afternoon on westbound I-70 near Union Boulevard. Police were called to a gas station on Union Boulevard near I-70. The child was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating a triple shooting overnight in downtown St. Louis. Police say two men and a woman were shot around 1 a.m. Friday in the 2000 block of Locust. All three victims were take to the hospital and are listed in stable condition. There’s no word on a motive or of…