ST. LOUIS — Police are searching for two suspects in a shooting at a St. Louis MetroLink station.
It happened Saturday at the station near DeBaliviere Avenue and Forest Park Parkway.
A fist fight ended with a 17-year-old girl being shot at the station, St. Louis police said. Surveillance video at the Forest Park-Debaliviere station shows a fight Saturday night between two girls.
A man pulls out a gun, hands it to one of the girls, then takes it back to open fire again on the 17-year-old, shooting her in the arm.
Barbara Rodriguez lives in a Pershing Avenue apartment and was driving by right before 8 p.m. on May 18.
"I just hear these screams like this girl screaming, really, really traumatically screaming," Rodriguez said. "Then, I look and see this girl on the ground. She's bleeding profusely from her arm."
Rodriguez, who is a traveling nurse at a children's hospital, thought about getting out to help. However, she saw a police officer already putting what looked like a tourniquet on the unidentified girl.
"If I was working that night, she could have been my patient that night," Rodriguez said. "Or gone to the ER at the Children's Hospital. That's very difficult to try to wrap my brain around because they're so young."
Young faces of suspects are now posted on the wall next to the MetroLink Station. MetroLink rider Bettie Douglas feels like she keeps hitting a wall again and again when talking about gun violence with young people.
Especially after 19-year-old Jordan Gunn was shot and killed at that same station the previous Saturday.
"The people who got shot up here, they will never get to go home," Douglas said. "They won't be able to have families and live a decent life. It's not worth it. We've got to slow it down. We've got to put these guns up. If you've got beef with a person - fight. That's what we used to do. We'll fight and then be friends the next minute."
Rodriguez is now not planning to renew her lease after two violent weekends, despite loving the location.
Speaking with 5 On Your Side's Annie Krall last Sunday while heading on a run through Forest Park, Rodriguez had talked about how the MetroLink is "so convenient. ... I went to a Blues game and it literally is right there. The MetroLink is so convenient."
However, a little more than a week later, Rodriguez said she doesn't want to ride the MetroLink again anytime soon.
Especially after what she saw on Saturday.
"Now, I won't go that way anymore," Rodriguez said.
5 On Your Side has repeatedly reached out to Metro Transit about these recent shootings and has been directed to their May 11 statement, which reads in part: "Metro Transit Public Safety stands steadfast in its commitment to our community's safety."
Anyone with information on the suspects is asked to call police.