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Man, 71, found dead in downtown St. Louis hotel room
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A man was found dead inside a downtown St. Louis hotel room on Tuesday. St. Louis police said the 71-year-old was found dead inside a room at the Mark Twain Hotel on 9th Street. Officers classified the death as a “sudden death” and said the Medical Examiner’s Office had assumed the investigation.
Central West End shopping plaza deals with car break-ins, double shooting days apart
ST. LOUIS — A shopping plaza in the city's Central West End neighborhood is dealing with back-to-back crimes in just over a week span. Late Wednesday night, gym goers picked up shattered glass outside of Planet Fitness in the Lindell Marketplace shopping plaza. That's where four cars were broken...
Two St. Louis men indicted in murder-for-hire in teen’s shooting
Two men from St. Louis, Missouri have been accused of a role in the murder of an 18-year-old St. Louis man in 2021. Anthony Stewart, 25, and Patrick Robinson, 23, were each indicted on May 8 on one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of murder-for-hire. The...
After more than 30 years in prison, Chris Dunn’s hearing for freedom set for Tuesday
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A judge has scheduled a hearing for Missouri inmate Chris Dunn for Tuesday morning. In February, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney filed a petition to vacate Christopher Dunn’s murder conviction. A St. Louis court convicted Dunn for the fatal shooting of Ricco Rogers, 15, on May 18, 1990.
Arrest made 2 years after St. Louis crash that killed innocent driver
ST. LOUIS — A man was arrested and charged two years after police said he caused a crash that killed an innocent driver while fleeing St. Louis County police. Marc O. Gardner, 28, was arrested Tuesday after a St. Louis police SWAT team executed a search warrant at a home on the 5400 block of Dewey Avenue. He was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and resisting arrest.
SLMPD down over 300 officers from 2021, but Chief Tracy says recruitment efforts going well
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - St. Louis Metropolitan Police (SLMPD) continues to lose more officers than they can replace, but the chief believes the situation is improving. SLMPD Chief Robert Tracy told the Budget Committee at the Board of Aldermen Thursday that the force has 911 commissioned officers...
SLMPD investigating possible arson, connection between South City fires
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - St. Louis Police are investigating two different fires on Nebraska Ave. on Thursday that happened just a few minutes apart. Around 5:30 a.m., the St. Louis Fire Department responded to a garage on fire in the 3100 block of Nebraska. Around the same time, firefighters responded to another call in the 3200 block of the same street, less than two blocks away at a vacant building.
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