Law and order
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three boys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
- David Carson
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two fellows stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Violent attack was one of several downtown St. Louis carjackings
Kim Bell
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two studs stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three boys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
ST. LOUIS • The wounding of a man in a downtown carjacking attempt Tuesday night was about a block from the scene of a carjacking Sunday night and three blocks from where a woman was slain in a carjacking in May.
The latest victim, a man 29, was said to be “stable” in a hospital Wednesday with a gunshot wound in the forehead. His attackers got away.
Police said he was stopped for a traffic signal at Olive and 11th streets when one man walked up and two others stood nearby on the sidewalk.
The driver “motioned for the suspects to back away,” police said. As the light turned green, he embarked forward and one of the studs fired into his car window.
The studs ran and the victim drove away and struck the back of another car and a flower planter at Olive and 9th streets. Officials said he was responsive when an ambulance arrived.
There was no detailed description of the attackers.
At about eleven p.m. Sunday, two fellows stole an SUV at gunpoint from a man who was sitting in the Oldsmobile Bravada, parked on the east side of the four hundred block of North 11th Street. That is near Locust Street, about a block north of Tuesday night’s attack. They fled north on 11th and west on Washington Avenue.
That put them through the intersection two blocks north near where Brandi Hill, 21, of O’Fallon, Mo., was shot to death in a Sunday night carjacking at about Ten:30 p.m. May 22. She was stopped in traffic on Washington, near 11th, when two dudes who had been walking west approached and demanded the keys to her two thousand fifteen Dodge Challenger.
They pulled her pregnant passenger into the street, shot Hill, then drove a brief distance before dumping out the dying woman. Hill’s baby daughter, who had been in the back seat, was found unhurt in her car seat that evidently had been threw out at 22nd and Angelica streets, a few blocks east of Fairground Park.
One suspect in that case surrendered and is charged with murder; the other suspect was killed in Washington Park days later when police attempted to arrest him.
A greater distance away, on the southern edge of downtown, about a block west of Busch Stadium, a carjacker was critically wounded and the vehicle proprietor was hit in the gam in a shootout May 30. That happened about Ten:30 p.m. in the nine hundred block of Spruce Street.
That victim got out of his parked pickup as ordered but had a gun and fired five shots that wounded the robber, who crashed the truck. An accomplice in another car exchanged shots with the victim and picked up the wounded robber before driving to a hospital. The wounded carjacker died days later, and the accomplice was charged.
Nassim Benchaabane of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Violent attack was one of several downtown St
Law and order
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three guys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
- David Carson
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two studs stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Violent attack was one of several downtown St. Louis carjackings
Kim Bell
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two boys stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three guys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
ST. LOUIS • The wounding of a man in a downtown carjacking attempt Tuesday night was about a block from the scene of a carjacking Sunday night and three blocks from where a woman was slain in a carjacking in May.
The latest victim, a man 29, was said to be “stable” in a hospital Wednesday with a gunshot wound in the forehead. His attackers got away.
Police said he was stopped for a traffic signal at Olive and 11th streets when one man walked up and two others stood nearby on the sidewalk.
The driver “motioned for the suspects to back away,” police said. As the light turned green, he embarked forward and one of the guys fired into his car window.
The studs ran and the victim drove away and struck the back of another car and a flower planter at Olive and 9th streets. Officials said he was responsive when an ambulance arrived.
There was no detailed description of the attackers.
At about eleven p.m. Sunday, two dudes stole an SUV at gunpoint from a man who was sitting in the Oldsmobile Bravada, parked on the east side of the four hundred block of North 11th Street. That is near Locust Street, about a block north of Tuesday night’s attack. They fled north on 11th and west on Washington Avenue.
That put them through the intersection two blocks north near where Brandi Hill, 21, of O’Fallon, Mo., was shot to death in a Sunday night carjacking at about Ten:30 p.m. May 22. She was stopped in traffic on Washington, near 11th, when two dudes who had been walking west approached and demanded the keys to her two thousand fifteen Dodge Challenger.
They pulled her pregnant passenger into the street, shot Hill, then drove a brief distance before dumping out the dying woman. Hill’s baby daughter, who had been in the back seat, was found unhurt in her car seat that evidently had been threw out at 22nd and Angelica streets, a few blocks east of Fairground Park.
One suspect in that case surrendered and is charged with murder; the other suspect was killed in Washington Park days later when police attempted to arrest him.
A greater distance away, on the southern edge of downtown, about a block west of Busch Stadium, a carjacker was critically wounded and the vehicle holder was hit in the gam in a shootout May 30. That happened about Ten:30 p.m. in the nine hundred block of Spruce Street.
That victim got out of his parked pickup as ordered but had a gun and fired five shots that wounded the robber, who crashed the truck. An accomplice in another car exchanged shots with the victim and picked up the wounded robber before driving to a hospital. The wounded carjacker died days later, and the accomplice was charged.
Nassim Benchaabane of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Violent attack was one of several downtown St
Law and order
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three boys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
- David Carson
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two studs stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Violent attack was one of several downtown St. Louis carjackings
Kim Bell
Brandi Hill in a photo from Ft. Zumwalt South High School. Hill graduated in two thousand thirteen and was killed after being shot when two fellows stole her car on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Photo via Fox two News
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of Olive and North Ninth streets in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Police say three boys attempted to rob the victim as he sat in his SUV at the intersection of Olive and North 10th Street. One of the suspects fired a shot, striking the driver in the head. The driver drove a block down Olive Street and crashed into a tree and trash can at North Ninth. Police say the driver was conscious when they arrived and helped himself onto the stretcher to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]
ST. LOUIS • The wounding of a man in a downtown carjacking attempt Tuesday night was about a block from the scene of a carjacking Sunday night and three blocks from where a woman was slain in a carjacking in May.
The latest victim, a man 29, was said to be “stable” in a hospital Wednesday with a gunshot wound in the forehead. His attackers got away.
Police said he was stopped for a traffic signal at Olive and 11th streets when one man walked up and two others stood nearby on the sidewalk.
The driver “motioned for the suspects to back away,” police said. As the light turned green, he commenced forward and one of the boys fired into his car window.
The studs ran and the victim drove away and struck the back of another car and a flower planter at Olive and 9th streets. Officials said he was responsive when an ambulance arrived.
There was no detailed description of the attackers.
At about eleven p.m. Sunday, two guys stole an SUV at gunpoint from a man who was sitting in the Oldsmobile Bravada, parked on the east side of the four hundred block of North 11th Street. That is near Locust Street, about a block north of Tuesday night’s attack. They fled north on 11th and west on Washington Avenue.
That put them through the intersection two blocks north near where Brandi Hill, 21, of O’Fallon, Mo., was shot to death in a Sunday night carjacking at about Ten:30 p.m. May 22. She was stopped in traffic on Washington, near 11th, when two boys who had been walking west approached and demanded the keys to her two thousand fifteen Dodge Challenger.
They pulled her pregnant passenger into the street, shot Hill, then drove a brief distance before dumping out the dying woman. Hill’s baby daughter, who had been in the back seat, was found unhurt in her car seat that evidently had been threw out at 22nd and Angelica streets, a few blocks east of Fairground Park.
One suspect in that case surrendered and is charged with murder; the other suspect was killed in Washington Park days later when police attempted to arrest him.
A greater distance away, on the southern edge of downtown, about a block west of Busch Stadium, a carjacker was critically wounded and the vehicle proprietor was hit in the gam in a shootout May 30. That happened about Ten:30 p.m. in the nine hundred block of Spruce Street.
That victim got out of his parked pickup as ordered but had a gun and fired five shots that wounded the robber, who crashed the truck. An accomplice in another car exchanged shots with the victim and picked up the wounded robber before driving to a hospital. The wounded carjacker died days later, and the accomplice was charged.
Nassim Benchaabane of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.