ST. CHARLES, Mo – One person is dead and two others are injured after a shooting in St. Charles last night.
It happened in the parking lot of the St. Charles Convention Center and the adjacent Embassy Suites hotel.
Authorities told FOX 2 two people were taken into custody. They identified the person killed as 19-year-old Terrell Peete of St. Louis.
Video from the scene shows car crashing into tree; That car looked like it had bullet holes in it.
St. Charles police say this all happened shortly after 8pm last night. Authorities told FOX 2 that officers responded to reports of a triple shooting in the parking lot.
When they arrived, they found the crashed car and four people near the vehicle, three of them with gunshot wounds.
Two of the three injured people were taken to hospitals with what police say were fatal injuries.
The third injured person did not require immediate medical attention.
Authorities say Peete, who was one of the people shot and discovered by police, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
We have no update this morning on the condition of the other person who was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Authorities did not provide any details about the two people who were detained.
There was a second scene near the convention center that police told FOX 2 was somehow linked to the violence; this connection is currently unclear.
It’s unclear what led to the shooting in the first place. The St. Charles police investigation is still ongoing.
You will be asked to call St. Charles police if you have any information.
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