Gun Violence

Police say the arrest came after they interviewed a third witness last month.

The locally made film follows activist Darren Seals as he tries to intervene before gun violence takes the lives of more young people in St. Louis.

The multimedia art installation and reporting project features six original portraits by local artist Cbabi Bayoc, inspired by a years-long investigation by St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project into the more than 1,000 unsolved homicides over the last decade.

The state’s homicide victimization rate for its Black residents was 54.9 per 100,000 people in 2023, well above the national rate of 26.6 per 100,000.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page used the event marking National Gun Violence Awareness Month to push the county council to invest in a regional violence reduction effort.

“Wear Orange National Gun Violence Awareness” held an event in East St. Louis this past weekend to bring light to the suffering of families in the aftermath of “senseless” killing.

The bill also would lower the minimum age to acquire a concealed carry permit from 19 to 18.

Earlier this year, Matthew McCulloch pleaded guilty to several counts of endangering the welfare of a child, making a terroristic threat and unlawful use of a weapon. His father is Bob McCulloch, a former county prosecutor.

One of the measures, Senate Bill 74, would bar cities and counties from imposing their own open carry firearm restrictions.

Former St. Louis County police officer Matthew McCulloch — who was indicted by a grand jury after firing gun shots at a children’s trunk-or-treat in Kirkwood in October 2023 — on Friday pleaded guilty to six counts of endangering the welfare of a child, one count of making a terroristic threat and one count of unlawful use of a weapon.