ST. LOUIS – Within a five to six-hour span, dispatchers received over 500 calls for shots fired on New Year’s.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, between 10 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2018 and 3 a.m. on Jan. 1 - 215 of the calls were from citizens and 84 were incidents reported by ShotSpotter. Police said some of the calls may have overlapped as and they may have received multiple calls for the same incident.
One of the shots ended up in a St. Louis firehouse, narrowly missing a firefighter.
The city also had a tip line for the first time for shots fired. They received 29 calls on there. Police said almost all the calls were relative to the initial hearing of shots being fired with ‘very little’ investigative information.
In St. Louis County, over a six-hour span – they received 289 calls for shots fired. According to police, there were nine destruction of property incidents and one incident of a person suffering from a non-life threatening injury.
