Carbondale, IL (KTRS) A Carbondale police officer is out of the hospital after he was shot during a pursuit over the weekend. Carbondale police said Tuesday that 26-year-old officer Trey Harris was released from the St. Louis-area hospital, where he was treated after the Sunday shooting. Details of his injuries weren’t provided, but police said…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) The bond hearing for the suspect accused of shooting a Ballwin police officer will be held on Monday. The hearing for Antonio Taylor was set for today, but had to be postponed to allow his public defender time to prepare for the hearing. Prosecutors are seeking to have Taylor’s bond…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A man is dead after being shot by an off-duty St. Louis County Police officer. Police say the 20-year-old man was try ing to break in to the officer’s south county home in the 10000 block of Lakeshire Drive at just before 6 p.m. Saturday. The suspect attempted to gain…
Belleville, MO (KTRS) A man is dead after being shot by police in Belleville. Investigators say Belleville police were called at just before 10 p.m. Thursday to an apartment complex in the West Pheasantwood Court subdivision for a report of an intoxicated man with a firearm causing a disturbance. Upon arrival, the man was standing…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis’ prosecutor says she won’t be charging two officers in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old last year, concluding that no evidence disproves police claims of self-defense. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced her findings Thursday in the August 2015 death of Mansur Ball-Bey. She called the case “a tragedy…
Washington Park, IL (KTRS) The second suspect wanted in a fatal downtown carjacking is dead after being shot by police in the metro-east. Police say officers were attempting to arrest 21-year-old Devonte Gates Thursday afternoon in Washington Park when the shooting occurred. Gates was wanted in the death of Brandi Hill, who was fatally shot…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A group of activists are calling for a special prosecutor to handle the case in which a former police officer is accused of killing a man while on duty. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce filed first-degree murder charges Monday against Jason Stockley, more than four years after the shooting death…
CLEVELAND (AP) – The city of Cleveland has reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun. An order filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland on Monday says the city will pay out…
(KTRS) – The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office is examining the fatal police shooting of Mansur Ball-Bey. Police say that in August 2015 officers were serving a search warrant at a home when Ball-Bey ran out of the back door of the home. Officers say that Ball-Bey then pointed a gun at them before they…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say two officers and one suspect are being treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds after a confrontation in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola says the officers confronted the suspect after a 2-mile vehicle chase. The suspect exited his vehicle with a rifle after…