October 20, 2017
By Gloria Lloyd Staff Reporter news3@callnewspapers.com Sunset Hills Police Department officers who narrowly escaped injury in a high-speed chase and shootout in August were publicly identified for the first time last week so that they could be honored by city officials. Chief Stephen Dodge presented the Chief’s Commendation for Valor to Officer Chris Medlock and
[ Read More ]Officers from the St. Louis County Police Department’s South County Precinct responded this morning to a robbery at a convenience store on Bayless Avenue. QuikTrip, 3638 Bayless Ave., was robbed before 7 a.m. Police said a man approached the front cash register with a firearm and demanded money. He took an undisclosed amount of cash
[ Read More ]A one-of-a-kind classic car is still missing after it was stolen from a Fenton hotel earlier this week. A lime green El Camino that technology company Phoenix Contact sends as a promotion to car shows around the country was stolen from inside a trailer at the Fairfield Inn, 1680 Fenton Business Park Court, Monday night
[ Read More ]An Affton man was taken into custody in Kentucky charged with first-degree murder Thursday for allegedly killing an Affton woman last month. Danijel Colic, 23, of the 6700 block of Highland House Court in Affton, is being held on $1 million bond on one count of first-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action
[ Read More ]Ameren Missouri crews are repairing damage to a utility pole near the intersection of Forder and Ringer roads in Oakville after a woman struck it with her pickup truck early Tuesday morning. About 2:20 a.m., the pickup truck driven by the 21-year-old woman left the road and struck a utility pole at eastbound Forder Road
[ Read More ]An Affton man who was shot by a St. Louis County police officer Oct. 1 after refusing officers’ commands to drop a gun and sword he was holding has died, according to police, who say it appears to be a case of “suicide by cop.” Joshua Lanflisi, 38, who resided in the 7700 block of
[ Read More ]No students were injured when a car pulled out in front of a Special School District bus in south county Tuesday, officials said. About 2:54 p.m. Tuesday, a car pulling out of Suntrup Nissan at 6000 S. Lindbergh Blvd. turned onto Lindbergh and cut off the full-size SSD bus, which was carrying two students home
[ Read More ]Updated Sept. 28 with a description of the suspect. Police in the city and county are looking for a suspected carjacker who took an elderly woman’s car at the south county Kmart this morning. The woman, 75, had her car taken by a man who approached her with a knife at 10:26 a.m. Tuesday in
[ Read More ]The Sunset Hills Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find a man who escaped after an attempted burglary in the Tapawingo subdivision. A resident in the 9300 block of Caddyshack Circle interrupted a burglary in progress at approximately 3:37 a.m. Monday. The burglar, described as a white male with a tall, thin
[ Read More ]An Affton woman’s death that police initially called “suspicious” is now being investigated as a homicide. Police identified the victim Friday morning as Joan Furlong, 65, of the 8400 block of Hampstead Drive in Affton, near Affton High School. Officers from the Affton Southwest Precinct found Furlong’s body at approximately 4:01 p.m. Thursday during a
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