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KayLR
8-22-22, 11:11pm
Yes, right here in River City. Right next door to me.

Last Sunday morning we awoke at 4:26 a.m. to someone knocking loudly at our door. We got up and looked out our bedroom window and saw many people pouring out of the house next door and into their cars. Cars which were lined up and down the street; cars that weren't there when we went to bed the night before.

Cautiously we went to the door but no one was there. I saw a man handing a woman something in our front yard then they ran to separate vehicles and took off.
Most of the cars were now gone, that fast.

I swear it was one minute later the cops arrived and blocked off the street at both ends. Probably 5 cruisers. Then the fire engine, ambulance and fire chief showed up. We were on our front porch, mouths agape.

We were interviewed by a detective who said there had been a shooting, 3 victims who all went to the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. "Reportedly" someone just walked into the backyard where neighbor guy was having a party (we didn't hear the party or the shots because we have a fan on in our room), and started shooting.

No one could identify or describe this shooter. I call BS. I think some drunken party-goer got mad at someone and brought out his heater and no one wants to tell on him.

This neighborhood is VERY quiet. Mostly elderly on our block save this neighbor guy. He's in his mid-40s. He's a retired military guy, a bit on the spectrum in my opinion, and his wife left him last summer. She had their yard looking like a magazine cover and now it looks like hell. But he's always driving some flashy new car. Every other week it's a new one. He must lease and trade in continuously. He hasn't shown his face much outside since.

The thing that I found interesting---the City sent some guys out later that day to clean up the blood in the street where the victims had run to their cars or fallen. There were about 4-5 spots of it I guess. They wore gloves, but other than that, they just looked like the crew guys who pick up trash alongside the road. I just have never heard of this street blood cleanup before. Have you? What a job!

KayLR
8-22-22, 11:13pm
Quick add----several other neighbors said someone knocked on their doors too. Maybe party-ers were hoping to hide in our house?

iris lilies
8-23-22, 12:01am
Wow, welcome to St. Louis and no they don’t send city crews to clean up the blood on the streets. Although I will say the group that takes care of Graffiti and tagging are pretty responsive.

Once I scrubbed blood off my neighbors deck after she was shot and killed, but that was, of course, private property.

rosarugosa
8-23-22, 6:18am
What a way to start your morning!

Tybee
8-23-22, 8:09am
Kay how truly scary and disorienting.

JaneV2.0
8-23-22, 12:21pm
Good grief. I thought this kind of thing only happened in Portland. ;)
I'm glad everyone survived; hope they pinch the perp!

KayLR
8-23-22, 1:32pm
I have not read or heard one more thing about it. It's really weird.

lmerullo
8-23-22, 2:33pm
Wow, Kay, that's so scary!

Good thing you didn't open your door. Who knows what would happen then?

I think there's a privately contracted company for crime scene cleanup here, but not sure if they'd come out for drops on the street.

happystuff
8-23-22, 6:29pm
So scary, Kay!

ToomuchStuff
8-23-22, 10:50pm
I suspect they were going after samples.

While I wasn't home for the murder down the street (heard about it on the news), or the next door neighbor shooting through their house and into my house (found out a year after, above my bedroom window), I was around after the neighbor wanted me to store his camper trailer in my yard (I said no), when the cops came around and started going through his trash, due to his "missing" spouse. I fully expect the trailer was a crime scene.

KayLR
8-24-22, 11:52am
I suspect they were going after samples.

I don't think so. There was one cop lingering after everyone had left who said he was just staying to keep the scene secure until the city cleanup crew got there. Then he took off when they came. Like I said, these guys looked more like a city litter-picker-upper crew. They were definitely scrubbing, not collecting. There was one guy in a city pickup truck watching them, like maybe it was an offender crew even.

Teacher Terry
8-24-22, 9:36pm
That’s awful Kay! Glad you are fine.

littlebittybobby
9-2-22, 10:49am
Okay----I guess my life was sheltered until the last few years. Violent deaths mainly were in the form of car wrecks, which of course you kids know I'm an avid follower of. But---in the last decade or two, this place where I'm living has seemed to become murder city, too. Lots of people have moved here, and some(okay---most) of them are unsavory. But, even the inbred locals kill each other, sometimes! Mainly over drug money and domestic disputes. We even had a perfesser go berserk over a perceived insult, and stab another prof to death, right in his home! Yup. I've questioned whether all these shootings which we like to call ghetto cultcha are brought on by impressionable youth following action entertainment and news media, which does seem like a possibility. But, the chatter on our emergency/police scanner-following f-book group has accused LOCAL media of suppressing much of this news, in order to maintain the image of this town for the sake of Tourism/Higher Education/and just general family-rated wholesomeness! See? But yeah---seems like violence and property crimes have greatly increased, here and everywhere. I have two former neighbors serving life terms! But yeah--that's my perception. Lock your doors, keep a gun under your pillow, don't go out after dark. Nope. Hope that helps you some.