Homicide

St. Louis police say they’re moving up their summer patrolling plans after shootings across the city left five dead and 17 injured over the weekend.

Researchers from the University of Missouri and Washington University, studying St. Louis Children’s Hospital emergency room data, found more children are coming to the ER with gun shot injuries than before the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020.

St. Louis officials are celebrating a big drop in murders while the city’s police classify more and more killings as “justifiable homicides” instead.

APM Reports is suing the police department for withholding data about which homicide cases have been solved. The department told APM Reports and St. Louis Public Radio that information was a part of an investigative record.

Updated Nov. 27 It's a horrific crime: the killing of a child. In St. Louis in 2019, it's been repeated again and again. Since Memorial Day weekend, nine…

Editor’s note: There were 341 unsolved murders in East St. Louis between 2000 and 2018. In many of these cases, police had evidence and suspects, but no…

Editor’s note: There were 341 unsolved murders in East St. Louis between 2000 and 2018. In many of these cases, police had evidence and suspects, but no…

This article originally appeared in the Belleville News-Democrat.The courtyard at the Roosevelt Homes public housing complex on North 44th Street is…

This article originally appeared in the Belleville News-Democrat.The boy was inches from his mother when she took her final breaths.The man who shot her…

St. Louis Police suspect four of six killings over the past weekend were drug-related, Chief John Hayden said Monday.Drugs were found at two of the crime…