There’s a new streets director coming to City Hall. A name familiar to court watchers is taking over the Office of Violence Prevention. Another colonel is coming in, this time as deputy of city operations. And rounding out the City Hall shake-up, the director of the city’s Community Development Administration is on his way out.
Both Marvin Teer and Bryan Barroqueiro have been spotted around City Hall in recent weeks—they are the new head of the Office of Violence Prevention and the new deputy chief of operations, respectively.
Teer, a former St. Louis City municipal court judge, joined the Circuit Attorney’s Office in 2021 to bring stability to the troubled office then run by Kim Gardner. He served as the office’s chief trial assistant, handling high-profile cases such as the successful prosecution of the man who killed police officer David Dorn amid upheaval in the city following the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Teer left the office in the final days of Gardner’s tenure before coming back to work for Gabe Gore. As the head of the Office of Violence Prevention he’ll be leading an agency that coordinates public safety and violence intervention programs—rather than prosecuting criminals, his new job will see him trying to stop crimes from happening…