NEAR STAUNTON, IL (KTVI) – A police pursuit from Glen Carbon Illinois ends near Staunton Illinois with a suspect dead and Illinois State Trooper shot. The incident started in Glen Carbon around 3:45 pm after an armed carjacking in the area of a Sam’s Club. Officers responding to the carjacking spotted the suspect vehicle and…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Two St. Louis County police officers have been fired for misleading investigators about their role in a fatal pursuit. Police Chief Jon Belmar announced the firings in a statement on Friday. He did not name the officers. The incident began on Aug. 10 when a Hyundai Elantra sped past the officers.…
BOONVILLE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a woman has been wounded in an officer-involved shooting in central Missouri. The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the shooting happened around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday after Boonville police began pursuing a vehicle. The post says the fleeing driver kept going after gunfire erupted in…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) One of two children injured in a crash involving a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that ended at St. Louis Lambert International Airport last month has died. St. Louis County Police say nine-year-old Caleb Lee of the 2500 block of Rustic Drive in St. Louis was sitting in the rear of his family’s…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County police continue their investigation of a car crash at Terminal Two of St. Louis Lambert International Airport that followed a police chase. The crash left two children critically injured and two women also injured. The crash happened around 10 o-clock this morning. Police say a Normandy officer saw an SUV…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A carjacking suspect is dead after being shot by police in north St. Louis. Police say it started in Jennings late Monday night when an officer spotted a vehicle that was taken in an armed carjacking in south county earlier in the day. The St. Louis County police officer pursued…