ST. LOUIS — A security guard and a teenager were shot late Monday night outside of a hospital in St. Louis' Dutchtown neighborhood.
Just before 11:30 p.m. Monday, St. Louis police responded to several calls of shots fired outside of South City Hospital, also known as Saint Alexius Hospital, in the 3900 block of South Broadway.
An initial investigation from police found an 18-year-old man walked into the hospital and asked the 30-year-old security guard for help finding a lost phone in the hospital parking lot. While they were walking in the lot, a silver Chrysler 300 came speeding up and two people inside the car started shooting toward the man and guard.
The man was shot in the back side of his head and the security guard was shot in her hand.
The car sped off. Police said there were a total of three people inside the vehicle; no further details about them were released.
St. Louis police did not have an update on the victims’ conditions but said their vital signs were stable.
There were evidence markers seen on Osage Street and Ohio Avenue, at the southwest corner of the parking lot.
Saint Alexius Hospital closed its emergency room for several hours while the investigation was underway. The emergency room reopened at 1:30 a.m.
Lt. Matthew Karnowski with St. Louis police was on the scene of the shooting.
“We believe that there are suspects at large," he said. "But it's very early in the investigation and we’re not quite sure how all these pieces of the puzzle are fitting together just yet.”