ST. LOUIS — A homicide investigation is underway after a teenager was shot and killed in St. Louis Tuesday night.
She has been identified as Carieal Doss, 18.
Officers responded to 2800 Franklin Avenue at 10:32 p.m. and found Doss with a gunshot wound on the sidewalk. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said it appears she ended up there after being shot somewhere else.
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