ST. LOUIS – Homicide investigators have made an arrest for a fatal shooting outside a north St. Louis cocktail lounge this past August.
According to a probable cause statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened Aug. 24 around 2:30 a.m. in the 2700 block of Marcus Avenue, in the city’s Greater Ville neighborhood.
Officers found the victim, Wilbert Rogers III, suffering from gunshot wounds on the sidewalk across the street from Janay’s Cocktail Lounge. Rogers was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 38.
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Investigators learned Rogers was inside the lounge when Ezzard C. Earl, 44, approached him and the two men exchanged words. Rogers walked outside and was talking on his phone. Police said Earl followed Rogers outside as he finished his phone call. When Rogers crossed the street, Earl came up to him and shot him…