A Missouri deputy sheriff left his gun loaded and unattended at a family gathering last week, and his 2-year-old nephew found it and shot himself. Ferguson Police spokesperson Pat Washington said the St. Louis deputy, who was not identified, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Washington said the child wasn’t taken to …
A parent, apparently angry at his son’s playing time, shot the boy’s youth football coach in the back four times at a practice this week in St. Louis. The gunman, Daryl Clemmons, turned himself in on Wednesday, the day after the shooting, and has been charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action, the …
An attorney representing a teenage volleyball player who lost both legs after a horrific car crash in downtown St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against the city, the drivers of both cars involved, and one driver’s mother. Janae Edmonson, then a 17-year-old high school senior from Tennessee, was in St. Louis for a volleyball tournament …
A ninth teenager was seriously injured when she was trampled trying to get out of the building.
An FBI background check blocked the sale of a weapon from a licensed dealer to the man accused of killing a teacher and a student at a Missouri school for the arts this week. Orlando Harris, 19, instead bought the AR-15-style gun he used in the shooting from a private seller, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch …
A 19-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition Monday morning inside a Missouri visual and performing arts school, killing a teacher and a 15-year-old student. Four more students were shot and wounded, while two suffered abrasions and another fractured an ankle trying to flee the gunman, the St. Louis …
A toddler fatally shot himself in the parking lot of an AutoZone in St. Louis on Monday afternoon. Police said the boy had already been taken to the hospital by the time they arrived. He was pronounced dead there, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The Child Abuse Unit is handling the investigation. KMOV said the …
Two St Louis men have been charged with murder after an explosion at a house killed a man and three teenagers as they were assembling black market fireworks. Charging documents say that Terrell Cooks, 37, and Seneca Mahan, 43, provided the materials to assemble fireworks canisters at the home near Black Jack, according to the …
Family members, however, say the shooting – which was streamed live on Instagram – was accidental.
A road-rage shooting has left one man injured after a woman allegedly fired a gun at a vehicle carrying four children in Missouri. Now the woman who fired the gun is facing multiple criminal charges in connection with the incident, which comes just weeks after a child was killed in a similar shooting in California. …
Jail officials used tear gas to bring inmates at the St Louis City Justice Center under control Saturday morning following an hours-long melee that included smashed windows, flaming debris, and clogged toilets, the St Louis Post Dispatch reports. Authorities said the disturbance began at about 2:30 a.m. when a guard and an inmate fought and …
A security guard contracted by St Louis’s mass transit system was shot in the face and killed Sunday morning when he confronted a suspect who had been causing a disturbance, KSDK reports. St Louis police responded to the incident just after 10 a.m. at the Delmar Loop MetroLink station near Washington University in St Louis …
