ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis County man will make his first appearance in city court Monday on a litany of charges for crimes committed in St. Louis City over the past several weeks.
According to probable cause statements from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, Demetrius A. Simmons, 42, is accused of a shooting on the Fourth of July, a carjacking weeks later, followed by an attempted car theft and police pursuit.
On July 4, police were dispatched to the Super 8 Motel in the 6200 block of North Broadway, in the city’s North Riverfront neighborhood. When officers arrived, they were told that a man had been shot several times in his back and had been taken to the hospital. Investigators recovered shell casings in the motel parking lot…