ST. LOUIS — An apartment manager was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon, less than 12 hours after a deadly shooting in St. Louis' Carondelet neighborhood.
Shane C. Richmond, 48, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting that left a man dead early Tuesday morning.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, officers found a man who had been shot at about 3:15 a.m. outside of the common entrance of an apartment building in the 5700 block of South Broadway. The victim, later identified as 36-year-old Terrell Cunningham, was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the probable cause statement, Richmond is a property manager at the apartment. Richmond told police he noticed the building had been broken into, so he grabbed his shotgun and went to investigate.
He told police he found the man inside the building kneeling and with his hands up. Richmond told police the man stood up and started walking toward him. Richmond said he shot the man in self-defense, but another witness who was inside the room said Richmond shot the victim immediately.
In the probable cause statement. police said the evidence showed the victim was shot in the side, which would not line up with what Richmond said about the man walking toward him.
Richmond is being held without bond.
Resources for crime victims
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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.”
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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.
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