South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Officer Blake Snyders father, mother, wife, son and other family members attend a dedication at the Affton Fire Protection District for the new Officer Blake Snyder Memorial Highway on Oct. 27, 2018. Snyder was killed nearly four years ago while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Green Park.

Four years after his death, memory of Snyder lives on in South County

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor October 1, 2020

Next week will mark four years since Officer Blake Snyder was murdered on duty while responding to a call in Green Park, but his memory lives on in South County through several permanent memorials that...

Top 10 Stories of the Year: Merger, Stenger and trolley place regionalism on St. Louis center stage

Top 10 Stories of the Year: Merger, Stenger and trolley place regionalism on St. Louis center stage

January 9, 2020

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...

Wesley Bell, center, takes questions from reporters after being sworn in as St. Louis County Prosecutor on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Bell has already faced criticism for the decisions he made his first few days in office.

Bell outlines reforms at Oakville town hall

October 16, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com To read a related article about Bell at the town hall, click here. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell hasn’t yet reached...

Elizabeth Snyder, wife of slain St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder, and Dick Snyder, Blake Snyders father, react to the sentencing of Trenton Forster in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday, April 18, 2019. 
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com

Officer Snyder’s widow forgives husband’s killer at sentencing; Forster gets life without parole

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 19, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com During the formal sentencing Thursday that sent Trenton Forster, 20, to prison for the rest of his life for killing St. Louis County Police...

Sentencing happens today for Trenton Forster, Officer Snyders killer

Sentencing happens today for Trenton Forster, Officer Snyder’s killer

April 18, 2019

Trenton Forster, who was convicted in February of first-degree murder for shooting and killing Officer Blake Snyder in Green Park in 2016, will be formally sentenced Thursday. After a jury convicted...

The Affton Southwest Precinct, as seen when residents decorated the patrol car of fallen Officer Blake Snyder after he was killed in the line of duty in October 2016.

Trenton Forster convicted of first-degree murder

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 13, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After four hours of deliberation last week, a St. Louis County jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder with an automatic sentence...

Peggy Snyder, Officer Blake Snyders mother, hugs a Green Park officer after the jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder in the killing of Officer Snyder. Photo by Gloria Lloyd.

Officer Snyder’s killer convicted of first-degree murder, gets life without parole

February 8, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After four hours of deliberation Friday, a St. Louis County jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder with an automatic sentence...

Officer Blake Snyders father, mother, wife, son and other family members attend a dedication at the Affton Fire Protection District for the new Officer Blake Snyder Memorial Highway on Oct. 27, 2018. Snyder was killed over two years ago while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Green Park. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Despite troubled history, Forster made a choice to kill Snyder, prosecutors argue

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 7, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Prosecutors in the trial of a man accused of killing a St. Louis County police officer from the Affton Southwest Precinct are making the...

Snyders killer said, If Id known he was a cop, I wouldnt have shot him

Snyder’s killer said, ‘If I’d known he was a cop, I wouldn’t have shot him’

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 7, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The trial of the south county man who admits he shot and killed Officer Blake Snyder is underway in Clayton this week, and with Trenton...

McCulloch will not seek death penalty against Officer Snyders alleged killer

McCulloch will not seek death penalty against Officer Snyder’s alleged killer

December 8, 2017

County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced Friday he will not pursue the death penalty in the murder trial of the teenager accused of killing Officer Blake Snyder. Trenton Forster, 19,...

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