Police: Man fatally shot in St. Louis suburb of Berkeley
April 5, 2021
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BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) Police in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley are investigating after finding a man fatally shot.
The shooting was reported just before 11 p.m. Sunday, and responding officers found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, Berkeley police said in a news release.
The man was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name was not immediately released.
Berkeley police have asked for help from the St. Louis County Police Department, and the Bureau of Crimes Against Persons is leading a homicide investigation into the shooting death. No arrests had been reported by Monday morning.
Drop in Missouri COVID-19 cases stalls, creates some worry
April 5, 2021
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ST. LOUIS (AP) After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmissions across Missouri, experts worry that the drop has stalled and caseloads could start to rise again.
“Every time you think this pandemic is going to keep going down, it throws you a new curve ball,” Dr. Alex Garza, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The number of new daily cases of the coronavirus peaked in January then began to drop sharply. Missouri’s seven-day average dropped below 500 a day last month, for the first time since the summer. The St. Louis region’s daily average hospital admissions tumbled to 35, the lowest in eight months.