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Police Release Surveillance Footage of Black Suspect in Fatal Drury Inn Shooting
 ST. LOUIS – The scene is now clear at a south city hotel after a night of violence. They’re trying to get back to business, but it will be anything but a normal day at the Drury Inn on Hampton just south of Interstate 44. A manager working the overnight shift Wednesday was fatally shot when three men came in demanding cash and receipts. Witnesses reported hearing three shots and then the suspects fled. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released the following information about the incident and suspect Thursday morning: Victim: Scott Knopfel, a 50-year old white male of the 6500 block of Southwest Suspect: Black male, 40’s, medium build, and wearing a Chicago Bulls ball cap, black or brown leather waist length coat, black tee shirt with white “Adidas” logo across the front, Khaki pants (long/baggy at the bottom) - (Black-on-white) |
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the suspect, a 29-year-old black male...
a 22-year-old black male went to the residence of his ex-girlfriend, where he challenged the woman's current boyfriend to a fist fight
One of the three victims, a 21-year-old black male,...
Police say the victim, 32-year-old Cheri Simpson, was driving a car stopped at the light at that location when the suspect, a 50-year-old black man, pulled alongside her vehicle. The two exchanged words, and the suspect shot into the car. Simpson was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A second passenger, a 32-year-old black male, was shot in both hands, and remains in stable condition. A third passenger, another 32-year-old black man, was not injured. The suspect in this case is in custody.
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Before Ferguson exploded in reaction to the August shooting of black teen Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson, the St. Louis police chief raised eyebrows when he called for the use of drones to monitor high-crime areas. The proposal was a response to what St. Louis police authorities called “subhuman, antisocial, urban terrorist” behavior by criminals. St. Louis also is home of the notorious “Knockout Game,” a random but racially motivated assault that has claimed at least six lives. St. Louis is 44 percent white and 49 percent black, but statistics shows a racial imbalance in crime. Based on the city’s official crime data for 2012 — the most recent year which data are available — 97.6 percent of those arrested for murder were black and 2.4 percent were white. More than 82 percent of those arrested for serious crimes like murder, aggravated assault and larceny were black, while just 17.5 percent arrested were white.
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