Posted on 05/18/2024 6:23:13 AM PDT by marktwain
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A man has been charged after he was shot while reportedly trying to break into a home Tuesday morning.
The incident took place around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of Empress Drive. According to St. Louis County police, a man forced entry into a home when the homeowner shot him. The suspect ran off on foot but was tracked down by a police K9. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries following the shooting.
First Alert 4 spoke to the homeowner who didn’t want to go on camera but did send us surveillance videos showing what they say is the suspect trying to get inside two times earlier in the morning, before finally making his way in. The homeowner said they woke up to the suspect knocking things around inside but believe he was inside their house for about 40 minutes before that.
Janelle Whiting lives close to where a home invasion happened.
“I was shocked,” Whiting said. “It was a shocker waking up to that news.”
Whiting describes the neighborhood normally as a peaceful one.
“It’s a quiet neighborhood,” Whiting said. “We don’t get a lot of break-ins that I know of and I’ve been here for 13 years.”
Tuesday afternoon, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Andre Farrar III, 27, with burglary first-degree, attempted burglary first-degree and resisting arrest with a felony. He was receiving treatment in the hospital when the charges were filed.
The probable cause statement reads that Farrar had unlawfully entered the home and attempted to steal property by throwing said property out the window, before he was shot by the homeowner.
According to police, Farrar attempted to break into a home in the 10200 block of Pannell Drive hours before the shooting. He has prior burglary convictions in the City of St. Louis. He has also been convicted for unlawful possession of a firearm and property damage.
Neighbor Brendan Cole said he woke up to go to the bathroom and saw flashing lights outside. When Cole looked out the window, he said he saw county police lining the street.
“The first thing I could think of is, thank god my house is safe and that person wasn’t trying to get in my home,” Cole said. “I don’t want to be in that type of situation. It’s crazy but you have to protect your family at the end of the day.”
Cole said the neighborhood will see random crime but doesn’t have any major safety concerns.
“You just have to be more attentive to what’s going on around you just like in any neighborhood,” Cole said.
“I don’t think it’s a crime-ridden neighborhood,” Whiting said.
The homeowner told First Alert 4 that nothing like this has ever happened to them before.
Please contact the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210 if you have any information regarding this investigation.
> “I don’t think it’s a crime-ridden neighborhood,” Whiting said. <
But soon it will be, Mr. Whiting. Biden’s open-border policies will see to that.
Had to read the headline several time to be sure it didn’t say “the homeowner was charged”.
Yup.
For those who don’t know St. Louis City ≠ St. Louis County. A long time back the then-prosperous City seceded from the then-hick County.
Recently the City has tried to rejoin the County to get to all the sweet tax money in the County. The County wants nothing to do with the idea.
“...but, ...but drugs are victimless crimes”
Being a burglar is a dangerous profession in some area of the country.
“”Had to read the headline several time to be sure it didn’t say “the homeowner was charged”.””
I did also. Are our eyes failing us or our brains? There’s only so much of this that we can absorb before our senses fail us...
I did the same. I think we have been conditioned to outrage and expect the worse of insanity.
Liberal policies drove people out of the city. Rather than fix the problem, they just want to take what the county has, under the motto of “Better Together.”
There is a reason I have never had less than ONE dog.
Have had 2—have had 3.
They are my SECURITY alerts.
Current dog is Rott mix.
Insurance says he is OK.
Live rural.
Mess around in this area & if you ONLY get tattled on by the dog, you are lucky.
Is the homeowner black?
Considering "The suspect" was leaking blood and possibly other bodily substances, Fido didn't have too hard a time tracking him down.
Since neither the Perp nor Vic’s pigment was indicated, I’d say a safe bet is, the Yogi reply.....
Anybody worth shooting once is worth shooting two or three times, at least.
I’d like to think he bit him.
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