🌱 Tornadoes Leave 7 Dead + STL Man Charged in Capitol Riot

Helen Eckhard
Updated ·2 min read

Morning, neighbors! Helen Eckhard here with today's issue of the St. Louis Daily.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and mild. High: 57 Low: 38.

Here are the top stories in St. Louis today:

  1. St. Louis police are investigating the death of a toddler that has been ruled suspicious. Officers responded after receiving a report Friday that a 2-year-old boy had been struck by a car on Rutger Lane. The boy was not breathing and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. (STLtoday.com)

  2. At least seven people are dead following a series of tornadoes that stretched from St. Charles County to the Metro East on Friday night. Six of the fatalities occurred at an Amazon fulfillment center in Edwardsville. An 84-year-old woman was also killed in her Defiance home. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

  3. Police have identified a man who was killed in a stabbing on Union Boulevard earlier this week as 60-year-old Toran McCoy. (STLtoday.com)

  4. A St. Charles man has been charged for his involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.

  5. A painting by St. Louis artist Kelly Latimore that depicted Mary and Jesus with brown skin was stolen from a chapel at the Catholic University of America. (St. Louis American)

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— Helen Eckhard

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.

This article originally appeared on the St. Louis Patch