Posted on 07/20/2016 9:01:18 AM PDT by simpson96
BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS • Police early Wednesday morning said they haven't been able to find a 13-year-old girl suspected of shooting and critically wounding a couple in their 70s during a beauty supply store robbery the day before.
The girl was considered armed and dangerous. She apparently ran from the store carrying a pistol. Police search dogs lost her scent in a wooded area between the store and the Castle Point neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon.
Bellefontaine Neighbors Police said this surveillance image shows a girl they want to talk to in connection with a shooting at a Bellefontaine Neighbors beauty supply store on Tuesday, July 19, 2016.
The critically injured man and woman, who live in O'Fallon, Mo., were being treated at a St. Louis hospital after being shot once in the torso area, said Detective Lt. Shawn Applegate.(snip)
Applegate said early Wednesday that he had been told by the hospital that the woman had died overnight, but police have since corrected that to say both victims remain alive. (snip)
The couple were shot after 4 p.m. Tuesday at Kings Beauty Supply, 10073 Lewis and Clark Boulevard, near Chambers Road. They live in O'Fallon, Mo., and are the store owner's parents who frequently worked at the story.
Police knew the identity of the girl, whom police were calling a “person of interest." She gave police a fictitious name earlier in the day when they talked to her about an earlier disturbance at the store. They sent her on her way, however, because the store's owner didn't want to press charges.(snip)
Police believe that the girl who was released on a warning later returned to the store and shot the couple.
A witness saw her enter the store, "then less than a minute later came running out, swinging in her right hand a revolver as she ran,"
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
How did I know?
It may get to be like Viet Nam and the Middle East. Send out the kids so the good guys won’t shoot.
Updated article:
“Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Chief Jeremy Ihler said the girl showed up at the St. Louis County Police Department’s North County precinct. Ihler said he was told that the girl’s family took her to the station.”
“Police worked overnight to try to find her. They went to her last known address, where her mother lives, and no one answered. But a neighbor told police the mother had sent the daughter to live with the girl’s father for the summer, saying she was fed up with the girl’s behavior.”
Oh and don’t forget...black hair, brown eyes and a hoodie, you know, to narrow it down ever farther.
“She gave police a fictitious name earlier in the day when they talked to her about an earlier disturbance at the store. They sent her on her way, however, because the store’s owner didn’t want to press charges.”
Still sufficient ground IMO to hold her at the station until a parent picks her up.
Possibly sufficient grounds to frisk her and take her gun (depending on what the earlier disturbance entailed)...Obama’s “child soldiers”.
Ah, yes, the fruits of all of the “Girl Power” garbage that’s been shed upon girls for the past 30 years. Proving that females can be just as gangsta’....
But the race hustlers had a fit when cops shot the 12-year-old kid who was waving a toy gun that looked like a real one. Twelve-year-olds don’t shoot people, they said. Yeah, right. Some do.
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