Gun Violence

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…

Pearl Tabb’s son was shot in her St. Louis apartment complex in September 2019. It wasn’t the first time he was shot, but this time, the wound was more…

Researchers at Washington University have found that paramedics and emergency medical technicians are seven times as likely as the general public to have…

The first ordained Presbyterian minister of gun violence prevention is headed to St. Louis to teach elected officials and parishioners about ending gun…

New Northside Missionary Baptist Church — a predominantly black Jennings church — is a welcoming space on the inside. But on the outside, it’s…

Missouri lawmakers are still at odds on how to solve the spike in gun violence and gun deaths in St. Louis and other urban areas. On Tuesday, House…

It’s hard to tell who has a gun at Fellowship of Wildwood church, unless you’re really looking.The men stand silently at the edge of the crowd, as…

The Missouri Foundation for Health and a national think tank are commissioning $1.5 million in grants for researchers to study the causes and effects of…

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…

St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson says she has confidence in the city’s police leadership, despite the deaths of seven people in the first 36 hours of the…