‘We thought he would recover’: Teen hit-and-run victim dies a day after release from hospital

The night of Jan. 8 started out as a typical one for 16-year-old King Thompson and his best friend.

“I’d just seen them playing video games in the living room,” said Taneshula Sharp, King Thompson’s mother.

The St. Louis mom says her son and his buddy left the Sharps’ home and and walked to a neighborhood gas station near Dr. Martin Luther King and Vandeventer in north St. Louis…

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