Cassidy Stokes thought it would be him, not his younger brother, who’d be the first to encounter a bullet.“It just scared me, traumatized me,” the…

The crackle of gunshots has become white noise for children living in parts of north St. Louis.“I got used to it,” a fifth grade girl said, “because it…

Updated Nov. 27 It's a horrific crime: the killing of a child. In St. Louis in 2019, it's been repeated again and again. Since Memorial Day weekend, nine…

Early this spring, Shamyia Ford Jennings, 17, walked with her cousin and a friend to a corner store in north St. Louis. Minutes later, she was in St.…

Updated Oct. 3 with approval by the Board of Estimate and ApportionmentFunding to start a nationally recognized anti-violence program in St. Louis has…

A portrait of Frank “Nitty” Sessions hangs on the wall at Nitty’s Salon 1 and Retail on Natural Bridge Road, high above the manicure station.Tammy Riley’s…

Ten children have been shot to death in St. Louis since Memorial Day weekend — more than the total number of young people killed by guns in all of…

Eddie Hill IV never showed up for the fifth grade. The 10-year-old was shot and killed enjoying his summer vacation from his front porch in the Lewis…