Only a few hours into 2020 and Missouri’s second largest city recorded four homicides in multiple shootings across St. Louis.
The St. Louis Police Department told KMOV the incidents – in which a total of eight people were shot – began rolling in shortly after midnight, when a teenager was shot in the thigh in a neighborhood on the city’s northwest side.
The teenager was rushed to an area hospital and was listed in stable condition, police said.
Not even a half-hour after the first incident was reported, three people were found fatally shot in an intersection in the city’s Benton Park neighborhood. A fourth victim was discovered shot in the leg at the location just before 12:30 a.m.
Officials told FOX2 the victims have not been identified and no arrests have been made in connection with those shootings.