Gunfire hits St. Louis County councilman s car; no injuries
April 17, 2021
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FRONTENAC, Mo. (AP) A St. Louis councilman s car was fired upon in what police are describing as a possible case of road rage.
Ernie Trakas, a Republican, said in a tweet that he wasn’t hurt in the Friday afternoon shooting on Interstate 64 in Frontenac.
But police said the rear hatch of his vehicle was hit at least once when the driver of a small, dark gray SUV opened fire. No one else was in the vehicle with Trakas at the time, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
“Today reminded me that violence impacts everyone in our region,” said Trakas, a 70-year-old Oakville attorney who was reelected in November to a second four-year term representing a broad swath of unincorporated south county.
Police ID man found dead following eastern Missouri standoff
April 15, 2021
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MOLINE ACRES, Mo. (AP) Police in suburban St. Louis have identified a man found fatally shot in a Moline Acres home in an incident that led to an hourslong standoff, but no arrest.
Marquise Foston, 28, of St. Louis, died at a hospital after being pulled from the home by officers Tuesday night, St. Louis County police said in a news release. Police were called to the home just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, where they found Foston with several gunshot wounds.
Officers believed the shooting suspect was still barricaded inside the home and called in a SWAT team. About four hours later, a search of the home revealed that the suspect had fled before the SWAT team arrived.
Police: Man fatally shot in St. Louis suburb of Berkeley
April 5, 2021
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BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) Police in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley are investigating after finding a man fatally shot.
The shooting was reported just before 11 p.m. Sunday, and responding officers found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, Berkeley police said in a news release.
The man was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name was not immediately released.
Berkeley police have asked for help from the St. Louis County Police Department, and the Bureau of Crimes Against Persons is leading a homicide investigation into the shooting death. No arrests had been reported by Monday morning.
Drop in Missouri COVID-19 cases stalls, creates some worry
April 5, 2021
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ST. LOUIS (AP) After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmissions across Missouri, experts worry that the drop has stalled and caseloads could start to rise again.
“Every time you think this pandemic is going to keep going down, it throws you a new curve ball,” Dr. Alex Garza, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The number of new daily cases of the coronavirus peaked in January then began to drop sharply. Missouri’s seven-day average dropped below 500 a day last month, for the first time since the summer. The St. Louis region’s daily average hospital admissions tumbled to 35, the lowest in eight months.