He got into an altercation with the security guard, who was a retired East St. Louis police officer. The suspect pulled a knife on the guard, which led to the shooting. |
He said he had messed up. |
He said he went to the area where the shooting occurred and saw the victim's body lying in the roadway and called police. |
He said his girlfriend accused him of eyeballing the clerk on duty at a liquor store in the 1200 block of State Street where the victim had gone to buy his girlfriend some balloons. |
The suspect became angry and began cutting the victim. It appears that she sustained a wound to the top of her head and on her left arm while the victim was attempting to defend himself. She was taken to the hospital, treated and released. |
We received information that he was in the Roosevelt Homes where he frequents. Our officers went there and arrested him without incident. |
When our officers arrived at the scene, they found a black male lying in the roadway. He had been shot multiple times. |