St. Louis Metropolitan Police

Ramon Chavez-Rodriguez faces felony charges including DWI death of a law enforcement officer, exceeding the posted speed limit and operating a vehicle on a highway without a valid license.

The officer, David Lee, was responding to a separate crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Grand Boulevard when the car struck him on Sunday morning.

The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.

These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not.

The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog.

Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors.

In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones.

In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust.

Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience.

A south St. Louis bar owner has been released from the St. Louis City Justice Center after being charged with assault following a Monday morning incident in which a police officer crashed a car into the bar.