UPDATED at 8 p.m.ÌýFriday with details of latest child shot.
ST. LOUIS — A 7-year-old girl who was grazed by a bullet early Friday night was the fifth child to be hurt by gunfire in the city in just a little more than 24 hours.
The wounded girl brings to at least 50 the number of children injured or killed by gunfire this year in the ºüÀêÊÓƵ region, including the Metro East.
Police said the girl was taken to a hospital shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday after the shooting in the 4200 block of Evans Avenue in the Vandeventer neighborhood.
A resident who lives in the area said shots were fired at a nearby car, with the bullets passing through its windows and shattering a window in the home before grazing the girl’s arm.
About 17 hours earlier, a 14-year-old boy was struck by a bullet that traveled through his bedroom wall in the 1700 block of North 22nd Street. That block is in the city’s ºüÀêÊÓƵ Place neighborhood, north of Cass Avenue.
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The boy was sitting on his bed when the bullet came through the wall about 12:10 a.m. Friday. The bullet hit him in the torso. He was taken to a hospital where he was stable.
Police said they don’t know who fired the shot.
Three other children were shot in two separate incidents Thursday in the city’s Dutchtown neighborhood.
About 7:30 p.m. Thursday a 13-year-old boy was shot in the hip in the 3200 block of Itaska Street. He was conscious when he was transported to a hospital. Police said he was uncooperative with officers and gave inconsistent accounts of what happened to him. Police said people in a truck were firing shots. Two parked car were hit by bullets.
The other two children were hurt in a shooting about 4 p.m. Thursday in the 4000 block of East Iowa Avenue. In that incident, a 16-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet and an 8-year-old boy was shot in his side, police said. Both were stable at a hospital, police said.
The boy and girl told police they were walking in the area with four other teenagers. Suddenly, three girls and two boys, all 14 or 15 years old, got out of a vehicle and began yelling at them about an ongoing dispute, police said.
The argument escalated into several fights. The victims then ran to a home on Ohio and heard the shots that hit two of them.
Children injured or killed by gunfire in the ºüÀêÊÓƵ area in 2021
Below is the ºüÀêÊÓƵ coverage of children who were injured or killed by gunfire across the ºüÀêÊÓƵ metropolitan area in 2021. Police define a child as anyone 17 years old or younger.
According to this coverage, at least 23 children were killed in shootings; 72 were injured from across the region.
The boy realized he'd been shot at a Metro stop when he arrived at school, he told police.Ìý
The girl was shot during a fight inside a home in the 9000 block of Lawnview Drive.
The boy was struck inside his home in the Spanish Lake area of north ºüÀêÊÓƵ County
The teen told police he was walking west on Harney Avenue when he heard gunshots.Ìý
A woman shot a 13-year-old boy who, along with another male, was attempting to carjack her on Monday evening, the woman told police.
The teen told police he was walking to a bus stop at North Broadway and Riverview Drive when people inside a black Pontiac Grand Prix pulled u…
Police said the shooting seemed to be targeted at someone in the residence.Ìý
The girl was shot in the arm about 1:45 a.m. by someone firing from a car near Carmellia and Kossuth avenues, police said.
The 12-year-old who allegedly shot the older teen was arrested and referred to the juvenile court system.
Police said Marnay Haynes was found shot to death about 9:30 p.m. Monday in the 9900 block of Glen Owen Drive, south of Chambers Road.
Police were called about 1:15 a.m. Sunday to the apartment in the 1000 block of Spruce Street and found a 19-year-old man with a gunshot wound…
Police responded to the 6200 block of Chatham Avenue and found a dead man an the injured child.
He provided several locations for where the shooting happened, none of which could be confirmed, police said.
The shooting sparked a 10-hour manhunt involving multiple local police agencies. At 2:30 a.m. Friday, officers about a block from the crime sc…
Relatives identified her as Calyia Elizabeth Stringer, and said she was brain dead, and the family decided to donate her organs.
Around 8 p.m., officers responded to the 300 block of Lancashire Road, where they found the 8-year-old with a graze wound. The child was then …
Troy Williams was shot multiple times about 4 a.m. at 84th and Washington streets in East ºüÀêÊÓƵ.
Police were called to the shooting about 8 p.m. in the 4600 block of Oregon Avenue and found the child with a "superficial" gunshot wound to t…
A party ended up with the host and a guest suffering gunshot wounds after the 14-year-old host pulled out a gun early Sunday at downtown’s Bog…
Officers were told the 18-year-old instructed his little brother to bring him his gun and, as the 4-year-old carried the weapon, the child acc…
Both had lacerations to their face, so it was unclear the exact nature of their injuries, police said.
A Berkeley man is facing charges after a 3-year-old in his care ended up shot in the stomach.Ìý
Two of the victims are 17, and the other is 18.
A woman and her 9-year-old daughter were found shot dead inside an apartment in the 4200 block of Pleasant Street.
Two children, ages 4 and 9, were injured in a shooting in south ºüÀêÊÓƵ that also left a man hospitalized.
A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot Tuesday in the 10200 block of Lynncrest Court.
A 17-year-old was found critically wounded by a gunshot wound just a few blocks away from where a man was fatally shot in north ºüÀêÊÓƵ.Ìý
The boy and his 11-year-old friend were riding bikes about 7:15 p.m. in the 3100 block of Keokuk Street; a man got out and shot at the boys.
A 5-year-old boy was wounded after shooting himself in the finger in the city's Baden neighborhood.Ìý
A 15-year-old was shot in the Gravois Park neighborhood, then a 17-year-old was shot hours later in the Carr Square neighborhood.Ìý
The girl was walking in the 2000 block of East Warne Avenue in north ºüÀêÊÓƵ Saturday evening when she heard several gunshots and felt pain,…
Kyle Faulkner, 15, was shot and killed in a shooting in ºüÀêÊÓƵ' Carr Square neighborhood just north of Downtown.
A 16-year-old boy who sneaked out of his home to buy a firearm was shot in the neck in the 7800 block of Tennessee Place.
Police said 17-year-old Damon White was shot in the 11800 block of Larimore Road about 6:15 p.m.
A 15-year-old sitting in a parked car was injured when someone opened fire on the car.
The four kids bring to at least 50 the number of children injured or killed by gunfire this year across the ºüÀêÊÓƵ metro area.
Devonte Carter Jr. found the handgun in a dresser and shot himself in the head while handling the weapon, police said.
Police used a tourniquet to stop the teen's bleeding.
An 8-year-old was shot in the finger after accidentally firing a gun. A 14-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet hours later.
The 16-year-old was shot after swiping the restaurant's tip jar and assaulting a customer who tried to intervene, police say.Ìý
The shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. near Louisiana Avenue and Chippewa Street, on the border of the city's Dutchtown and Gravois Park neigh…
Three teenagers 17 or younger were among approximately 20 people who were shot over the weekend.Ìý
Police said the boy was stable at a hospital after a bullet grazed him. He was inside an apartment when a gunman knocked on the door and was l…
The 14-year-old girl was in her room when a bullet came through the window and hit her in the arm, police said. A 17-year-old in another apart…
The boy's mother left him in a car while she unloaded groceries to take to a family member.
The girl was shot in the thigh in the 3800 block of Eichelberger Street.
Mikal Hilton found a pistol his father left under a couch and accidentally shot himself, police said.
A brief description of the crime doesn't say if the shots came from a passing car. It also wasn't clear if the shooting occurred at the family…
The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. at Martin's Market, at 4324 Martin Luther King Drive. Both victims were found inside the market.
The 17-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder, hand and leg about 8:45 p.m. as he drove east on I-70 near Goodfellow Boulevard.
The incident happened at about 3:30 a.m. in the 3800 block of Euclid Avenue, just north of Natural Bridge Avenue.
A 34-year-old woman was killed in the incident; an 18-year-old was injured.
The 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot and injured while playing with two other children, according to a police report.
Damaurion Williams, of the 3200 block of North Taylor Avenue in ºüÀêÊÓƵ, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The toddler was playing inside an inflatable bounce house with a man and a woman, both 23, when the shooting occurred. The toddler suffered a …
The rolling gun battle erupted just after 12 p.m. near the intersection of Forest Park Parkway and DeBaliviere Avenue, police said, and ended …
Both victims were conscious and breathing after being shot about 2:45 a.m. in the 5200 block of Gilmore Avenue.Ìý
Festus police Chief Tim Lewis said a bullet struck two fingers on the boy about 12:10 a.m. in the 100 block of Lilac Drive.
The boy wasn't cooperating with investigators, officers said. He was shot outside an auto parts store.
Kathon Moore was shot about 5:20 p.m. in the 1100 block of Hodiamont Avenue. Police found him on the ground, and he was pronounced dead there.
Caion Greene, 9, was with family in their car in the 900 block of LaSalle Park Court, running an errand, when shots were fired at the car.ÌýDar…
The 17-year-old boy told police he was walking on Natural Bridge Avenue when he heard a gunshot and then felt pain in his leg.Ìý
The shooter killed his wife, Roseann Williams McCulley, 34, her 13-year-old son, Kayden Johnson; and her daughter, Kaylee Brooks, 6. He took h…
Police said the girl is about 10 years old. She was walking with another person along Earl Drive when she was hit by gunfire.ÌýAvantay T. Willi…
A 17-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old injured; police said the two forced their way into a home. The shooting was ruled justified; n…
The victim was identified by police Wednesday as Christa Medcalf, 17, of the 2000 block of Stillwater Drive in Hanley Hills. The car's driver …
A teenager fatally shot Teshawn Ford, 15, when they met to exchange guns in the parking lot of a convenience store, police said in court recor…
The incident took place at a home in the 12000 block of Garden Lane in Spanish Lake.
The children, Journee, 8, and Jakari, 1, were killed with their mother Kanisha Hemphill, 30, in a home in the 4100 block of South Grand Boulev…
Dmyah Fleming, 7, was killed with her father in the 4000 block of Laclede Avenue. Javonn Nettles, 28, was charged in April in connection with …
Police are handling the deaths of Kanisha "Kani" Richardson and her daughter Ava as a murder-suicide.ÌýThe two were found dead in a parked vehi…
Paris Lee Jr. was fatally shot in the torso before 4 p.m. in the 3900 block of Minnesota Avenue.
A 13-year-old girl was shot in the foot "somewhere on the south side" at 3:30 a.m.
The victim was found at a hospital after being shot in the 1700 block of El Sabado Drive. Two juveniles were arrested.
A 13-year-old was apparently accidentally shot in the finger while in an alley in the 5700 block of Floy Avenue.