ST. LOUIS – It’s been a busy start to the week for St. Louis police after two different shootings left a teenager and a woman hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Both victims are expected to survive. On Monday morning, the search is on for suspects in both cases.
The first shooting happened on the 6000 block of Schulte in the Walnut Park West neighborhood of north St. Louis. Police got that call about 5:15 p.m. Sunday. We’re told that when officers got there, they found an 18-year-old male shot several times.
He was rushed to a hospital for treatment. Police say the teen was conscious and breathing. He’s since been listed as in serious condition.
The second shooting happened nearly four hours later, just after 9:00 p.m. in south St. Louis in the 3400 block of Chippewa. That’s in the Dutchtown neighborhood.
In that case, police told FOX 2 that two people were in a car driving down Chippewa when they said they heard gunshots. Authorities shared that the passenger in the car, a 26-year-old woman, wound up being shot in the back. She also suffered graze wounds to the neck and head. The car pulled over and the woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
The driver of the car wasn’t shot. The police don’t have an official condition on the woman but we’re told she was conscious and breathing. This is the same block where, last Wednesday night, a murder happened.
In that case, an adult man was found with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
FOX 2 will update these stories with more information as it becomes available.
