🌱 SLMPD Identify Halloween Victim + Health Dep. Preps For Vax

Happy Wednesday, people of St. Louis! Let's get this day started off right. These are the most important things happening today in St. Louis.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and cool. High: 51 Low: 30.

Here are the top stories in St. Louis today:

1. St. Louis police have identified the victim of a Halloween morning shooting and have made an arrest in the case. Leeland Ross, 45, has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter for the Sunday killing of 41-year-old Demetrius Combs who was found shot in the stomach lying on the bedroom floor inside a home in the city’s Academy neighborhood. (U.S. News)
2. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page foreshadows when the St. Louis County Health Department plans to start vaccinating children between the ages of 5-11 against COVID-19. The FDA recently approved the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids between ages 5-11. Approval from the CDC could come this week and the St. Louis County Health Department aims to be ready as soon as possible. (KMOV 4)
3. St. Louis police on Tuesday identified a man who was shot to death over the weekend in the city's O'Fallon neighborhood. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
4. St. Louis ranks as the fourth-most affordable city for housing out of the top 50 metros in the United States, according to Realestatewitch.com. (Fox 2)
5. St. Louis County man, Jeff Hopkins, says a real estate broker stole his home. (Fox 2)

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About me: Helen Eckhard is a marketing assistant at Lightning Media Partners. She is a self-professed logophile who is currently pursuing her master’s degree in library science. Outside of work, you can find Helen constructing crossword puzzles, knitting, or devising increasingly crafty ways to kill off characters in her mystery novels.