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99 pewtercoupe
08-05-2015, 10:14am
Evidently that "hands up don't shoot" thing isn't working out so well...


Two men killed, 8 wounded in overnight shootings in St. Louis : News (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-men-killed-wounded-in-overnight-shootings-in-st-louis/article_5d1e6dce-ee47-5da2-8a78-65e0283841fc.html)

ST. LOUIS • Another violent night in St. Louis has claimed the lives of at least two men and injured eight other people in six shootings, police say.

Just before 8 p.m. Tuesday, a male in his late teens or early 20s was fatally shot in the 4700 block of Greer Avenue, near Natural Bridge Avenue and North Kingshighway Boulevard.

Three hours later, about 11:15 p.m., a man was fatally shot and four people wounded in the 2500 block of Semple Avenue, the same block where Dorian Valentine, 23, of St. Louis, was killed in a shooting about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. It was not immediately clear if the shootings were connected.



Twenty minutes later, a man was shot in the abdomen in the 3700 block of Ohio Avenue.

At 1:25 a.m., a man was shot in the arm at Montclair and Etzel avenues.

Then a man was hit by gunfire in his right side in the 5200 block of Maple Avenue about 2:20 a.m.

About 4:40 a.m., a man was shot near West Florissant and Genevieve avenues. Police said he was in critical but unstable condition at a hospital.

Additional details about the shootings were not available Wednesday morning.

The city has had at least 119 homicides so far this year, a more than 60 percent increase over the same time last year.

Bill
08-05-2015, 9:42pm
Time to move to Ladue or at least to South county.

Admiral Blue
08-05-2015, 11:36pm
Good luck with that. We have set the bar pretty high here in Chi-town...and we continue to raise it.

Stangkiller
08-06-2015, 7:06am
If it's just animals killing animals, why should we care? they don't want law and order? Fine, block them off from the rest of the state until they kill themselves off:island14:

Superstreet
08-06-2015, 11:18am
If it's just animals killing animals, why should we care? they don't want law and order? Fine, block them off from the rest of the state until they kill themselves off:island14:

:iagree: Self-cleansing.

boracayjohnny
08-06-2015, 11:48am
Good luck with that. We have set the bar pretty high here in Chi-town...and we continue to raise it.

But, but...how can that be since it's a gun free zone?

69camfrk
08-06-2015, 12:08pm
But, but...how can that be since it's a gun free zone?

Exactly...should be impossible for them to have guns. Oh wait, that's only for law abiding citizens. Criminals are free to do what they want. Almost forgot for a second.:issues:

Uri
08-06-2015, 1:05pm
SOP nothing to see here.

Norm
08-06-2015, 1:56pm
I believe there is a general malaise going on in the LEO community throughout the U.S., especially like areas of Baltimore, St. Louis, et al, cops can't do their job anymore as far as enforcement, they are scrutinized to the enth degree. Not that some don't need scrutinizing, but the overall majority don't.

Who knows where all this will lead, but it's tough getting really good qualified recruits nowadays. Departments are hiring felonists now,..............if it's a little felony.