Springfield neighbors react to two overnight shootings

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Police are investigating two shootings that happened overnight in Springfield.

Officers responded to a shooting downtown at 2:04 a.m. Sunday morning at the 500 block of East St. Louis Street, where four people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Across town, police were called to the 2000 block of West Webster Street at 4:14 a.m. There, they found 19-year-old Lavontae Bennett, who had been shot. He died at the scene…

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