Authorities in Missouri say a cop is dead and another is facing criminal charges after what they believe began as an ill-advised game involving live ammunition. According to KTVI, 24-year-old Katlyn Alix was at a St. Louis-area residence with 29-year-old officer Nathaniel Hendren and his partner early Thursday morning when the shots were fired. According …
Authorities in Missouri say a 25-year-old woman is behind bars after the death of her 2-year-old son on Friday. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Ebony Roby was reportedly driving her vehicle in the area of Jennings Station Road and Interstate 70 in the St. Louis area on Friday afternoon when the young boy …
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area man shot to death his girlfriend, her two young children and her mother in the home they all shared, authorities said Saturday. He exchanged gunfire with officers as he fled and was captured several hours later in a convenience store, covered in blood and wounded. Prosecutors filed …
A Missouri man who claimed he had consensual sex with a Washington University medical student was convicted of rape, kidnapping, and burglary on Thursday. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 28-year-old Jared Hurst claimed he had a three-month relationship with a second-year medical student that led to late night consensual sex. Yet, there were no cellphone, email, …
Authorities in Missouri say they tracked down a suspect in a brutal murder and a pair of sexual assaults at a religious supply store earlier this month after the man left his business card at a neighboring bar. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 53-year-old Imperial resident Thomas Bruce was arrested after a search spanning two days. …
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man was charged Wednesday with killing one woman and sexually assaulting two others after herding them at gunpoint into the back room of a suburban St. Louis religious supplies shop. The arrest of 53-year-old Thomas Bruce, of Imperial, ended a two-day manhunt that followed the brazen …
Authorities in Missouri continued to look for the hit-and-run driver of a vehicle that struck a 4-year-old boy in the St. Louis area last week. According to Crime Watch Daily, the young victim was identified by his grandmother as Tajma Johnson. He was reportedly transported to an area hospital from the scene of the collision …
A Missouri woman took her 6-year-old daughter out of a St. Louis elementary school after another student reportedly pulled the little girl’s hair so roughly that it left patches of her scalp showing. KDSK reports that a “bullying incident turned violent” happened at Lyon Academy in St. Louis after a student inside a first grade classroom …
By JIM SALTER and SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of riot police mobilized in downtown St. Louis overnight, arresting more than 80 people and seizing weapons amid reports of property damage and vandalism following another day of peaceful protests over a former police officer’s acquittal in the killing of a black man. …
By JIM SALTER and SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Noisy demonstrators disrupted shopping at upscale suburban malls on Saturday and later marched through a popular district of bars and restaurant to protest a white St. Louis police officer’s acquittal in the killing of a black man, marking a second day of mostly-peaceful opposition …
A Missouri mother who arrived at her 1-year-old son’s day care Monday afternoon allegedly realized that she forgot to drop him off that morning. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that daycare officials and police concluded that Tate Mitchell sat in the hot van for hours on Monday. Though Mitchell’s mother arrived at Casa dia Montessori School at around …
