ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Two St. Louis police officers were shot and one of them was seriously wounded Saturday evening while responding to a report of …
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Two St. Louis police officers were shot and one of them was seriously wounded Saturday evening while responding to a report of a shooting on the city’s south side by a suspect who was barricaded inside a house, authorities said. The suspect was taken into custody and the area was considered safe Sunday morning, police said on Twitter. More information was expected to be released later in the day. One officer was shot in the head and was “very critically” injured, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief John Hayden told reporters outside of St. Louis University Hospital, where the officer had been taken. The other officer suffered a leg wound, he added. Investigators with the police department said the incident took place shortly before 6 p.m. in the South Grand neighborhood near Tower Grove Park. The gunman had entered the home of a family before ordering them out of their residence at gunpoint and barricading himself inside, Hayden said.
