A 19-year-old man who died from gunshot wounds sustained Saturday on North 38th Street in Belleville has been identified by the St. Louis Medical Examiner’s Office as DreShawn Mathis.
Tara Rick, a spokesperson for the medical examiner, said Mathis was pronounced dead at 9:23 p.m. Aug. 30 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Belleville police said they were dispatched to Memorial Hospital at about 7:20 p.m. Saturday after Mathis was brought there seeking medical attention for gunshot wounds. He was then transported to a hospital in St. Louis…