ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man was shot and killed early Thursday in an area north of downtown St. Louis, police there said.
Officers were called to the area on North 13th Street shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday and found the man dead from a gunshot wound, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Police did not immediately release the man’s name or age, and no arrests had been reported by midmorning Thursday.
The death marked the city’s 225th homicide this year. That compares with 170 homicides recorded in St. Louis for all of 2019.
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