03-08-2011, 10:02 AM
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ST. LOUIS • Three U.S. marshals were shot while trying to make an arrest in the 3100 block of Osage Street shortly before 7 a.m.
The conditions of the marshals were not clear in the immediate aftermath of the shootings. Two of the marshals were taken to St. Louis University Hospital. Another was taken to Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
A suspect was also shot, and police now say they have a standoff or hostage situation at the home.
One of the marshals was talking to police immediately after being hit. A supervisor told police to put the injured in a patrol car and rush them to a hospital, as other police cars blocked intersections along the route to get them there faster.
After one suspect was shot and captured, police weren't sure who else was inside the brick flat, and a SWAT team was called in to clear the upstairs.
Forty minutes into the incident, police were calling it a standoff. Onlookers gathering a block away, just beyond the crime-scene tape, were shooed away as police cordoned off a wider area and closed off streets in the area.
A woman at the scene told NewsChannel 5's Kasey Joyce she is the sister of the suspected shooter and was distraught. She said authorities came to serve him warrants and he said I am not going to jail and am not planning on coming out alive. She said he had served 10 years in prison.
ST. LOUIS • Three U.S. marshals were shot while trying to make an arrest in the 3100 block of Osage Street shortly before 7 a.m.
The conditions of the marshals were not clear in the immediate aftermath of the shootings. Two of the marshals were taken to St. Louis University Hospital. Another was taken to Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
A suspect was also shot, and police now say they have a standoff or hostage situation at the home.
One of the marshals was talking to police immediately after being hit. A supervisor told police to put the injured in a patrol car and rush them to a hospital, as other police cars blocked intersections along the route to get them there faster.
After one suspect was shot and captured, police weren't sure who else was inside the brick flat, and a SWAT team was called in to clear the upstairs.
Forty minutes into the incident, police were calling it a standoff. Onlookers gathering a block away, just beyond the crime-scene tape, were shooed away as police cordoned off a wider area and closed off streets in the area.
A woman at the scene told NewsChannel 5's Kasey Joyce she is the sister of the suspected shooter and was distraught. She said authorities came to serve him warrants and he said I am not going to jail and am not planning on coming out alive. She said he had served 10 years in prison.