– Riverfront Times, June 28, 2021 –
A St. Louis County man killed and another was wounded after a broad-daylight double shooting Sunday afternoon in the Mark Twain neighborhood of the city, police say.
And they don’t know who did it.
Officers responded to a shooting call at 3:08 p.m. in the 4900 block of Rosalie Street, between Kingshighway Boulevard and Euclid Avenue. There, they found Chris Brown, twenty, in a car suffering from a gunshot wound. Brown died there, police say.
Another victim, an unidentified 21-year-old man, was found by police near the car, suffering from a gunshot wound to his torso. EMS transported him to a hospital where he was listed in stable condition, according to police.
Investigators suspect occupants of another car fired into the victims’ vehicle while driving near the 4600 block of West Florissant Avenue. The stretch of road borders Bellefontaine Cemetery.
The suspected shooters are unknown, police say. The homicide division of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is handling the investigation.
The shootings come during a violent summer in St. Louis. Read More / Image by RFT Staff
Victor Stefanescu 