ST. LOUIS — One person was killed and two others were injured Tuesday after a car crashed into an apartment complex in south St. Louis.
The St. Louis Fire Department said the crash happened at a complex in the 4600 block of Ridgewood Avenue at around 10:45 a.m. Police said the man crashed through a foyer, through a common room then out the back windows of the building.
In a tweet, the fire department said three adults were injured in the crash and taken to the hospital. One of the adults was critically injured, another was seriously injured and the driver was taken to the hospital as a precaution. One of the people taken to the hospital died later in the day.
On Wednesday, the person who died was identified as 58-year-old Nicholas Polm, who police said lived in the facility. Police also said one of the other victims, an 80-year-old man, was still listed in critical condition.
Terri Smith, a resident, said her fiancé was injured during the crash.
"He's in a wheelchair and it kind of knocked him all of the way back and everything," Terri Smith, a resident said. "There was a puddle of blood, there's glass. I couldn't get in there to see him but they took him in the ambulance."
Police said they believe the driver of the car had a medical emergency. The driver was one of the people taken to the hospital for treatment. The driver, a 73-year-old man, is cooperating with the investigation.
"The rate of speed caused one of the walls to collapse, causing the items inside of the building to be thrown about," Lt. Lathan Isshawn-O'Quinn said. "Striking one of the residents sitting in the building. That resident has passed."
The fire department, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the St. Louis Building Division are investigating the crash.