CREVE COEUR, Mo. — The suspect in a shooting outside a Jet's Pizza in Creve Coeur is in custody more than a month after at-large warrants were issued for his arrest.
The Creve Coeur Police Department announced Thursday that Azar Thompson was taken into custody by the United States Marshal's Service. He is charged with one count each of first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and property damage.
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Police said Thompson and an acquaintance met on April 7 outside of a Jet's Pizza on Olive Boulevard near Mason Road. The pair got into an argument, at which point police said Thompson shot the man and then drove away in a car.
Witnesses told police they heard two or three shots at about 2:15 p.m. The victim ran to a Dierbergs grocery store across the street, where employees called 911. The man was taken to the hospital for treatment
No one else was injured in the shooting.
Thompson is being held at the Madison County Illinois Jail Division pending extradition hearings.
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