ST. LOUIS — A teenage girl was arrested and charged Sunday with shooting and killing a woman a day earlier at a busy MetroLink station just north of Forest Park.
The 17-year-old girl is being held at a juvenile detention facility in ºüÀêÊÓƵ County on charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, ºüÀêÊÓƵ police said. A spokesperson for the department credited MetroLink’s “robust†surveillance system for the quick arrest.
Police responded around 3:30 p.m. Saturday to the 200 block of DeBaliviere Avenue, at the platform of the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink stop, for a shooting.
A woman was shot once in the chest, and she died at a hospital. Police said Saturday they believe the victim was in her 20s.
The platform was crowded at the time, said Lt. Adam Duke with the ºüÀêÊÓƵ Metropolitan Police Department, but “everyone scattered†at the sound of the gunshot.
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Kevin Scott, general manager of security at Bi-State Development, which operates MetroLink, said in a statement Saturday, “We are saddened at the events which transpired this afternoon. We are not immune to the plague of violent crimes which affect our region.â€