January 27, 2020
Pictured above: The St. Louis County Police Department investigates at apartments along Marble Arch Lane in Affton after a woman was fatally stabbed in March. The alleged attacker, her brother, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Photo by Erin Achenbach. By Seth Bodine Missouri News Network JEFFERSON CITY — Efforts to reduce
[ Read More ]A homeless man is accused of stabbing an Affton man to death last week. St. Louis County prosecutors on Friday charged Quentin Jackson, 37, with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and stealing a car in the Jan. 13 killing of Justin Leeman, 41. Jackson’s address is listed as the St. Louis County Justice Center at
[ Read More ]A Valley Park man was charged Friday with two burglaries in South County in November. Shawn Overstreet, 48, of the 300 block of Jefferson Avenue in Valley Park, was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary. Police allege in a probable-cause statement that Yorkshire Cleaners and the Affton Muffler shop both reported that their shops
[ Read More ]Pictured above: The Sunset Hills Police Department drives in the SunCrest Fest parade in September 2018. Photo by Gloria Lloyd. Sunset Hills police are searching for two suspects after an armed robbery Monday morning at the BP gas station on South Lindbergh. The BP gas station, 4504 S. Lindbergh Blvd., was robbed about 5:10 a.m.
[ Read More ]Pictured above: The St. Louis County Police Department investigates a previous Affton stabbing in March 2019. Photo by Erin Achenbach. The man found dying on his porch in Affton Tuesday was stabbed to death, police said. Justin Leeman, 41, of the 7900 block of Hildesheim Avenue in Affton, died after being stabbed in his upper
[ Read More ]Police are classifying the death of a man found on a porch in Affton as a homicide. Officers from the Affton Southwest Precinct of the St. Louis County Police Department responded to a call for a “person down” around 12:49 p.m. Tuesday in the 7900 block of Hildesheim Avenue in Affton. A man in his
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com With the leaked news that nonprofit organization Better Together was proposing a sweeping city-county merger that would merge St. Louis County and St. Louis city into one new “megacity” that would be one of the largest cities in the nation, 2019 had one of its top stories before it
[ Read More ]Pictured above: The window at the Phone Geeks store in Affton is boarded up Tuesday after a weekend burglary in Grasso Plaza. Photo by Erin Achenbach. A break-in at Grasso Plaza in Affton last weekend appears to be an isolated incident, police said Tuesday. The Affton Southwest Precinct of the St. Louis County Police Department
[ Read More ]A pedestrian was hit by a car at the intersection of Gravois and Tesson Ferry roads Saturday night, the latest in a series of recent incidents where a pedestrian has been hit by a car in South County. In this case, however, the pedestrian did not have life-threatening injuries, police said. The St. Louis County
[ Read More ]Two suspects were picked up by police for a burglary in Affton Friday morning. A spokeswoman for the St. Louis County Police Department said that officers received a call for suspicious person around 11:18 a.m. Friday in the 10800 block of Lavinia Drive. The call turned out to be a burglary, police said. At least
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