Graves covered in trash and drugs as homeless take over South City cemetery, sparking concerns from neighbors

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Frustrated Princeton Heights residents are demanding immediate action from city leaders as an unchecked homeless encampment inside the city-owned Gatewood Gardens Cemetery leaves headstones desecrated and neighbors fearful of nightly break-ins.

“There’s a lot of children, there’s a lot of schools – moms, dads, walking their kids in strollers, and this has gotten out of control now,” Patrick Theodore, who lives nearby in Princeton Heights, said.

Just steps inside South City’s Gatewood Gardens Cemetery is a disturbing sight…