ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on acquittal of a white former police officer in the shooting death of a black man in St. Louis (all times local): 1:25 a.m. Ten law enforcement officers have been injured during protests in St. Louis after a judge acquitted a white former police officer in the shooting death…
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago recorded its deadliest month in two decades in August, part of a sharp rise in gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city this year. Chicago police said Thursday that 90 people were killed last month, a 66 percent increase over August 2015. There were 472 shooting victims – an average of…
(KTRS) – Police issued a child abduction alert after a fatal shooting of an eight-month-old boy in St. Louis Tuesday afternoon. Investigators believe that Diata Crockett shot the child during a domestic dispute with the boy’s mother. Police believe he has two of his other kids in a car with him. He was driving a…
(KTRS) – Police are hoping that someone will recognize suspects in a fatal carjacking in newly-released surveillance video footage. Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue near 11th Street two suspects walked up to Brandi Hill’s car, shot her, and dumped her body in street before driving off in her car. Hill’s nine-month-old daughter was…
(KTRS) – Four men now face charges connected to a fatal shooting on Interstate 270. 20-year-old John Stith was charged with first-degree murder and nine other felonies. Prosecutors say that Stith and three other men were driving a stolen Mercedes when they pulled alongside a vehicle carrying Emma Wallace and three other people. Someone in…
Chicago has been a focal point of gun violence since 2012
Warren Marshall was shot and killed on December 8 while waiting at the stop on the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood
(KTRS) – The mother of three-year-old Xavier Robinson wants the 15-year-old boy who shot and killed her son this week, to be charged as an adult. The Post-Dispatch reports that Semaj Porter says the suspect will likely serve some time in juvenile detention and then “get on with his life”, but all she will have…
