St. Louis County Police identify the victim of Sunday afternoon’s homicide as 20-year-old Trevion Gill of Florissant. He was taken to a hospital by his mother, but later died. “She took good care of him, not way she would let him get into contact with a gun, period, or any weapon of that type, period”, said Epps’ aunt Malea Liggins.
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Police in Missouri are trying to determine how a 21-month old boy was shot and killed near St. Louis Tuesday, authorities said. The mother has been released.
Investigators believe the toddler shot himself accidentally at around 1 p.m.at a home on Utica Dr.in the Hanley Hills area, St. Louis County Police Department spokesman Shawn McGuire said in a statement.
The deadly shooting comes just a week after a 9-year-old, Jamyla Bolden, was fatally shot as she did her homework in Ferguson August.
The tree-lined block with one-story, wood-framed bungalows sits less than a mile from the village hall.
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The Rev. Doug Holllis, of Clergy United, went to the neighborhood and said he too had heard neighbors speculate that the recent violence may be connected to Tuesday’s fatal shooting.
