According to the St. Louis Police Twitter account, the kids were found unharmed at a relatives house in Bellefontaine Neihbors in St. Louis.
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Police said Crockett is a convicted felon. The wife tried to get out of the auto with 8-month-old Reign Crockett in her arms when Crockett, 34, fired a single shot aimed at the wife, but struck the boy instead, police said.
Officers say the suspect, 35-year-old Diata Crockett, may have his two other children, 2-year-old Rycker Crockett and 3-year-old Blase Crockett, with him.
St. Louis police are looking for a man believed to have shot his 8-month-old son to death this afternoon, and who is thought to have his two other young sons with him. As the auto was slowing in an industrial area of north St. Louis, the woman tried to get out.
According to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, the horrified mother reportedly flagged down a passing motorist who let the mother and wounded child into the auto. His criminal record includes convictions for burglary, resisting arrest and forgery, online court records show, and Dotson said that “he may be wanted for a parole violation”. The rented vehicle Crockett had been driving was found Tuesday evening outside an apartment building in Ferguson. Police say Crockett forced his wife and three young children into a rental auto at gunpoint.
An 8-month-old boy is dead after a shooting in north St. Louis, and police are still searching for the father and suspected gunman.
‘You need to turn yourself in, ‘ she said in a plea on KMOV.
Investigators are searching for a black 2014 Hyundai Sonata with IL license plate V446952. ‘Talk to your attorney and come in ASAP. You have to come in, if nothing else, you have to come in for your other kids’. It’s unclear when Crockett was released from prison. The couple had six children in all. Local media reported the vehicle was found abandoned Tuesday night in St. Louis County.
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Blase Crockett, 3, and his little brother are missing after their father killed their baby sibling, St. Louis police say. They are now in police custody awaiting return to the care of a family member.
