EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A 30-year-old East St. Louis man has been sentenced to six decades in prison for killing another man who identified him as the shooter. Eric Hill was found guilty in October of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Marcus Harris. Prosecutors sought a 55-year sentence and Hill’s defense…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A select group of sergeants will be the first St. Louis police officers to try out body cameras. St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson says he expects 90 of the department’s roughly 200 sergeants to try out the body cameras in a pilot program starting Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis County woman is dead after firing shots at police officers who entered her home after she shot a neighbor three times. Sergeant Brian Schellman, with the St. Louis County Police Department reports that 61 yr old Sheilah Huck had been acting irrationally outside her home Saturday before shooting a…
CHICAGO (AP) – Hours after Chicago officials released audio-free dashcam video of a white officer shooting a black teen 16 times, a 35-second excerpt with sound appeared online. But experts, police and an Associated Press analysis have concluded the audio is bogus. In it, viewers can see and supposedly hear Officer Jason Van Dyke firing…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating after a thief, trying to rob a Gordmans, was able to escape police. Tuesday afternoon around 2:30pm, officers from the Fenton Precinct responded to a call for a larceny in progress at Gordmans, in Gravois Bluffs. A suspect in the store was thought to be concealing numerous bottles of…
( KTRS ) A missing 15 yr old from Cleveland, Ohio has been found in a Missouri home where she was held captive by a man she met online. Federal Prosecutors charged 41 yr old Christopher Schroeder on Wednesday with transporting a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. Authorities say the teen was found…
( KTRS ) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the Chicago Police Department’s practices violate federal and constitutional law. Madigan says that the “shocking death” of 17 yr old, Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot by white police officer in 2014, raises serious questions about the use…
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) – A 6-year-old child is in protective custody after being found unharmed in a suburban St. Louis home where his parents died in an apparent murder-suicide. Police were called to the home in Valley Park around 11:15 a.m. Monday after school district officials expressed concern that the boy wasn’t in school.…
FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis County man is now charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the Thanksgiving night accident that killed a 6-year-old girl. Six-year-old Dezirae Thayer was in a relative’s car that stalled on a Florissant road Thursday night and was struck from behind. The child died Friday. Police say 31-year-old Daniel…
