ST. LOUIS — A woman is in critical condition after a shooting early Wednesday morning in St. Louis' Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.
At around 2 a.m., police received a call for a shooting at a home in the 900 block of N. Garrison Avenue.
When officers arrived, they found a 40-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds to her torso.
A 40-year-old man and 12-year-old boy were in the home at the time of the shooting but were not injured.
The 40-year-old man told police they were in the home when someone knocked on the door.
The woman went to the door and asked who was there. That’s when the suspect fired multiple shots through the closed door.
The woman was taken to the hospital and remains in critical condition.
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