ST. LOUIS—Authorities say five people were fatally shot and several others wounded in St. Louis in a 24-hour span this past weekend, just days after the city’s police chief announced a substantial drop in violent crime.
Police found the first victim, 33-year-old John Watson, dead around 7:40 p.m. on Dec. 22, in a vacant lot. Police responded around 4 a.m. on Dec. 23, to the fatal shootings of two other people—24-year-old Brian Henley and 25-year-old Kevin Brown. Henley was found in the driver’s seat of a vehicle with an uninjured 3-year-old girl inside, and Brown was in the street.
