ST. LOUIS – Detectives are asking for tips to help them solve a shooting that happened Monday evening in the city’s Walnut Park West neighborhood.
According to a spokesman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened just before 9:50 p.m. in 5300 block of Riverview Boulevard.
Officers arrived at the scene and saw ballistic damage to Miami Grill restaurant. While there, officers were notified that a shooting victim had turned up at a local hospital to be treated for a graze wound to his neck.
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Police went to the hospital and met with the teenaged victim. Police said the teen was uncooperative, but did tell the officers he was near Thekla when he heard gunfire and then fell to the ground. The teen said once he realized he’d been wounded, he received a ride to the hospital…