Children injured or killed by gunfire in the ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ area in 2023
Below is the ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Post-Dispatch coverage of children who have been injured or killed by gunfire across the ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ metropolitan area in 2023. The children are 17 years old or younger.
At least 68 children were injured or killed by gunshots. Twenty-one were killed; 4 were 11 or younger.
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A 16-year-old was shot and killed during a domestic disturbance in Troy, Missouri.
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the Mark Twain neighborhood. The teen told police he was in an alley when he saw a car pull up and fire six shot…
Police say the woman was shot multiple times and the 5-year-old girl sustained a graze-wound to the head about 5 a.m.Â
Demetrius Hill, 15, was shot multiple times around 1:30 a.m. in the 4900 Leahy Avenue, police said.
A 17-year-old was in critical stable condition after he was shot just after midnight in the Mark Twain I-70 Industrial neighborhood. He was dr…
The teenager was found shot multiple times in his legs around 4:55 p.m. in the 5500 block of Hebert Street, police said.Â
A 5-year-old child found a gun and shot himself in the hand, charging documents alleged.
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg Monday morning while walking his bike on the sidewalk along Natural Bridge Avenue. Police said people in…
A 13-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the city's Penrose neighborhood, authorities said.
A 15-year-old boy and suffered a graze wound to his right hip, according to ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ police.
A teenager and a 21-year-old woman were shot and injured while in a car in the city's Columbus Square neighborhood. The teenager was shot in t…
Police say a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed early Sunday morning near Gravois Park, and they identified another 16-year-old boy as the suspect.
The boy was hit in the foot in the 100 block of Countryside Lane in O'Fallon, Illinois.
A 13-year-old boy was shot in the head, and a 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg in the 3200 block of Delor Street, police said.
Police identified the victim as 16-year-old Antonio Thompson. He was killed in the 5800 block of Minerva Avenue.
A 2-year-old girl was shot in the hand Saturday evening as she walked up the steps to her home in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood, police said.
Kaitlyn Drake, 17, died after being taken to a hospital. Investigators believe the shooting was accidental and self-inflicted.
A 9-year-old child was shot and injured Wednesday morning when someone opened fire on a home in north ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ County.
Belleville police were called just after 6:30 p.m. to the first block of South 88th Street; the girl was pronounced dead at a hospital
Walter Macon, 45, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and armed criminal action after he left the boy in a truck with a loaded gun.
A father shot three people, including a child, on Monday afternoon after a fight between two groups of kids escalated in south ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´, mult…
The boy told police he was walking around 2 a.m. in the 3900 block of Greer Avenue when he heard as many as 10 gunshots.
Police said they have not found a connection between the shootings, but they haven't ruled out that they may be connected.
The girl was shot at 9:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of South Grand Boulevard. Police were told an unknown man got out of a black SUV and fired shots.
Two boys, 16 and 17, and a 19-year-old man were shot around 12:40 a.m. in the 1400 block of Ohio Avenue.
The teen was fatally shot just before 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the 14300 block of Ocean View Court.
The boy said he was walking home with another person when they heard a gunshot near Riverview Boulevard and Jordan; the boy realized he had be…
Brandon Scott was shot inside a home just before 10 p.m. Monday in the 1800 block of Roosevelt Avenue; two men were charged with first-degree murder.
Police said the boy's 14-year-old cousin apparently had been loading the weapon and left it on a bed. The 9-year-old picked up the gun and acc…
Ten teens (six 17 or younger) were shot, one died; one was trampled as others tried to escape the building.
The shooting was at the Mobil Crown Mart gas station and convenience store at 5580 Martin Luther King Drive.
Authorities said Monday the preliminary information suggests the girl was hit by stray bullets.
The girl told police she was at the BP gas station, 1401 Chouteau Ave., just before 9 p.m. when she heard gunshots coming from outside.
The boy was shot shortly before 3 p.m. in the 1300 block of Aspen Woods Drive, ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ County police Officer Adrian Washington said.Â
The incident took place at Vandeventer Avenue and Chouteau Avenue at around 1 a.m. Saturday.
11-year-old David Winston shot himself in the head. The child had autism and would frequently watch TV in a room where a gun was kept.
A man was charged after he shot a 57-year-old man and injured a 45-year-old woman and teenage girl.
Four people were shot, two died in the incident. The 17-year-olds were both pregnant, one had to have an emergency C-section.Â
Officers found a 21-year-old woman dead outside the home and the two injured victims — an 18-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy — inside.
Police were called around 1 p.m. for a report of a teen shot in the 5800 block of Selber Court. Police said the shooting was accidental.Â
The boy would not answer questions about what happened and refused emergency medical services.Â
The boy, about 11 years old, was breathing when EMS crews got to him. They rushed the child to a hospital but his condition wasn't immediately…
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed late Wednesday in the city's O'Fallon neighborhood.Â
The ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ County Medical Examiner's Office said James Bond was killed in the 6800 block of Larry Lane in Berkeley.
Police arrested a man who showed a gun to two juveniles. A 16-year-old boy used the gun to fatally shoot himself, authorities said.
Officers responded around 8:20 p.m. to a call for a shooting in the 1400 block of South 10th Street.
The teenage boy and a 55-year-old man were critically injured after being shot as they sat in a parked vehicle at North Euclid Avenue and Hamm…
Emily Valentine, 15, was found on a parking pad in the 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue, in the city's Gravois Park neighborhood.
Major Ron Martin of the North County Police Cooperative said the 15-year-old girl was hospitalized Wednesday and is expected to survive.
Emily Valentine, 15, was found on a parking pad in the 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue, in the city's Gravois Park neighborhood.
A 13-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the face by her younger sibling in ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´â€™ Gravois Park neighborhood.
The teenage girl was critically hurt and 21-year-old Tyrell Survillion died. They were shot in a vehicle in the 4400 block of Ashland Avenue.
Police found the body of Dontaevion Little in the rear alley of the 4200 block of St. Ferdinand Avenue.
The boy was shot by a man who, police noted, was shot at by the boy first.Â
Lydia Elking was a passenger in a car driven by another teen. Lydia was shot in a residential area near Oak Avenue and Perry Street in St. Charles.
Jayden McCain was found shot in a parking lot in the 1800 block of High Sun Drive.
Jamorie Cannon was killed in the 800 block of O'Fallon Street.
Police are still trying to determine who fired the gun inside the home in the 1000 block of LaSalle Park Court.
Devon Montgomery, 16, was shot when two people drew their guns and began firing at the Pilgrim Green Missionary Baptist Church. Two men were a…
The boy was critically hurt after his 4-year-old brother fired the gun. The boys' grandfather, Markeith Mayo, was charged with endangering the…
The girl and a 17-year-old boy from Lake Saint Louis were in a St. Charles neighborhood when a robbery attempt led to the shooting.
Police said the victim was 17-year-old Dontaevion Little.
The shooting happened in the 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue, police say.
Police said the 15-year-old girl is hospitalized and expected to survive.
The teenager and a 55-year-old man were critically injured in the shooting near a market at North Euclid Avenue and Hammett Place.
Fifteen-year-old Emily Valentine was in the midst of a breakup with the boy police say killed her last month, her grandma told the Post-Dispatch on Friday.
 A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head early Sunday in south ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´.Â
The ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ County Medical Examiner's Office said James Bond was killed Sunday in the 6800 block of Larry Lane in Berkeley.
Staff at ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Children's Hospital treated a record-setting 163 children for gunshot wounds in 2022.
The boy was inside his home about 12:15 a.m. Thursday when a bullet fired outside went through the wall and hit him, police said.
The boy would not answer questions about what happened and refused emergency medical services. He was taken to a hospital by private vehicle instead.Â
A 15-year-old boy was hit in the elbow Tuesday afternoon in an accidental shooting in the city's Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.Â
Most of the children treated for firearm injuries at ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Children’s Hospital were innocent bystanders, according to recent findings by the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
The triple shooting was reported just before 7:15 p.m. Thursday near Clara Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive.
He accidentally shot himself after picking up a gun his 14-year-old male cousin apparently had left on a bed, police said.
A 15-year-old boy was shot just after 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday near the 9100 block of Jordan.
The boy who died was 17 years old. So was the boy arrested.
A 7-year-old boy died Monday morning in an apparent accidental shooting in Berkeley.Â
A 5-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday evening in Belleville, the second child killed in a span of less than nine hours in the ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ region.Â
A 2-year-old girl was shot in the hand Saturday evening as she walked up the steps to her home in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood, police said.
Police identified the victim as 16-year-old Antonio Thompson. He lived in the 4200 block of Enright Avenue.
Police said he was conscious and breathing.Â
It appears to be a targeted attack, police said.
The victim is 17-year-old Jaimarcus McDaniel.
A 9-year-old child was shot and injured Wednesday morning when someone opened fire on a home in north ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ County. The shooting was at least the third in the ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ region involving a child this week.Â
The boy suffered a graze wound and is expected to recover, ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ police said.
