A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in the Tower Grove East neighborhood, prompting a homicide investigation by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire around 2:20 a.m. on April 16 in the 2800 block of Minnesota Avenue, where they found a male victim lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds.
The victim, later identified as Jamad Edwards, 16, of St. Louis, was transported to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
