Teenager dead, six critically wounded in north St. Louis shooting

ST. LOUIS • A 15-year-old boy was killed and six other people, including an 8-year-old boy, were critically wounded in a shooting Friday evening in north St. Louis, police said.

Police Lt. John Green said the 8-year-old was shot in the face and was in critical and unstable condition. The other survivors were in critical but stable condition. Those five victims are from 17 to 40 years old, and all are male.

The gunfire started about 6:30 p.m. “We don’t know what caused the shooting,” Green said in a briefing at the scene about two hours later. “There was no argument according to witnesses, what little they told us.”

He said special operations and district officers who happened to be in the area heard the gunfire and rushed to the scene, which is in the 5100 block of Palm Street between Geraldine and Norwood avenues. The block of apartment buildings is just south of Natural Bridge Avenue near North Kingshighway.

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