14/10/2014 18:59
St. Louis shooting leaves one dead, one hospitalized
One man is dead while another is in hospital following a shooting at 1 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT) in north St. Louis, Missouri, Fox 2 reported Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti.
Homicide detectives claim at least 26 shots were fired by two suspected gunmen at the victims who were seated in a van, Fox 2 reported. One victim who was shot in the leg is in stable condition while the other was killed.
Police do not have any suspects in custody at this point, the newspaper reported.
The incident follows the fatal shooting of Vonderrit Myers, an 18-year-old African-American man, by a 32-year-old white off-duty police officer last Wednesday. The shooting sparked a wave of protests during the weekend.
Last Saturday, about a thousand people gathered near a police station in Ferguson to protest what they view as a series of racially motivated shootings of African-Americans by white police officers in the region.