Four shot, one fatally, in downtown St.
Louis
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[December 26, 2014]
(Reuters) - A shooting at a downtown
St. Louis convenience store on Wednesday left one person dead and three
others badly wounded, police said.
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Police said no suspects were in custody some five hours after the
shooting, which was reported shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time.
A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman, Schron
Jackson, said she was unable to provide any details about the
victims, any assailants or circumstances of the shooting.
She said one victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and the three
others were transported to a hospital, where they were all listed in
critical condition.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the shooting occurred at a
convenience store but had few other details. Jackson said one of the
victims was discovered near a store located at an intersection a
block away from the shooting scene.
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protests in the St. Louis area and elsewhere over the use of deadly
force by police.
The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson erupted in demonstrations after a
white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael
Brown, 18, in August. A new wave of unrest flared when a grand jury
decided last month to spare the officer from prosecution.
A New York grand jury sparked renewed demonstrations across the
country when it decided earlier this month not to indict a white
police officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner, 43, an
unarmed 43-year-old black man stopped by police for illegally
peddling cigarettes on the street.
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Violence flared again early Wednesday after a young black said by
police to have brandished a gun was shot to death by a white
policeman in Berkeley, another St. Louis suburb.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Jeremy
Laurence)
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