ST. LOUIS — A man who was shot and killed Friday afternoon in St. Louis' Dutchtown neighborhood has been identified.
The victim has been identified as 63-year-old Dennis Maguire of St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. He was found shot near the 3000 block of Osage Street. Responding officers were called shortly before 2:15 p.m. to investigate the scene and found Maguire with a gunshot wound.
He was then pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The Homicide Division assumed the ongoing investigation. There is no further information regarding the incident at this time.
The fatal shooting of Maguire marks the first shooting in Dutchtown this year after a series of other shootings last year in the neighborhood.
There have been at least nine different shootings in the south St. Louis area as recent as December of last year and as late as Jan. 31, 2023, impacting victims of various ages, according to 5 On Your Side 2023 coverage.
Just over a month ago, an 80-year-old man was critically injured by a stray bullet in the same neighborhood on Dec. 15. He told police he was standing in his kitchen when he was grazed in his arm and started bleeding. A preliminary investigation indicated the bullet entered his kitchen through his back door. He was expected to survive.
- In early October of 2023, a 19-year-old was fatally shot in the Dutchtown neighborhood. He was shot in the head in an alley located in the 3400 block of Psage Street, near Marquette Park. He was later identified as Latrell Prentice from St. Louis. Three days prior, another man was shot and injured in his back in the 3400 block of Keokuk Street.
- In September 2023, a person was shot to death in the 4100 block of South Grand Boulevard.
- In August 2023, a victim was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his head in the 3600 block of Keobuk Street.
- In July 2023, a child and two adults were shot in their legs after being shot in Dutchtown. The shooting happened near the intersection of Keokuk Street and Nebraska Avenue in the Dutchtown neighborhood, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said. A man was just gunned down in south St. Louis nearly a week earlier on July 17, 2023, in the 2700 block of Gasconade Street near California Avenue in the Dutchtown neighborhood. Police said a man was found shot in the head and later died at the hospital.
- In March 2023, five people were injured in four separate shootings within 10 hours across St. Louis, including one in Dutchtown. officers were called after a 20-year-old man arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. The man told police he was in a gas station parking lot in the 4700 block of S. Spring Avenue in Dutchtown when two men walked up and demanded his car. One of them shot him in the leg when he refused. The suspects then ran away. A witness who was with the victim drove him to the hospital.
- In January 2023, responding officers found a woman inside a car with a gunshot wound to her face in an alley on the 4700 block of Compton, between the Dutchtown and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police identified her Wednesday morning as 38-year-old Kay Johnson.
This is a developing story. 5 On Your Side will update this story as soon as information becomes available.
Resources for crime victims:
If you have been a victim of a crime or know someone who has been, 5 On Your Side has compiled a list of resources.
The Crime Victim Center of St. Louis has multiple programs to support victims of crime. Crime Victim Center’s programs range from direct services to crime victims as well as “creating awareness and change within the systems they encounter.”
Life Outside of Violence "helps those harmed by stabbing, gunshot or assault receive the treatment, support and resources they need to find alternatives to end the cycle of violence."
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis has the Neighborhood Healing Network, which serves people who have experienced crime, violence or been the victim of an incident that caused trauma.
Cure Violence is an international organization that is present in a handful of St. Louis neighborhoods. Violence interrupters are trained to deescalate violent situations within their own communities.
