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Crime victims fear looming crisis, what will happen to their cases
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ST. LOUIS – Following Kim Gardner’s resignation as Circuit Attorney, some crime victims are no less worried about their cases.
Critical court hearings and high-profile murder trials are scheduled even starting Friday, in which the prosecutor assigned to the case no longer works for the Circuit Attorney’s Office.
The Scott family has been attending hearings for years for two alleged killers of their loved one, Brandon Scott. Both cases are assigned to prosecutors who have recently quit.
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April Scott never expected the Circuit Attorney to also resign.
“I just feel like that’s a coward move of hers, honestly, on behalf of her character, taking the fact she has not taken any accountability for her actions,” she said.
April said her brother was shot to death after a case of road rage that ended on the arch grounds in 2021. She said Gardner’s resignation announcement was yet another surprise.
“We are totally in awe,” she said. “We just don’t know what to do, where to go from here. No one has reached out to us yet again.”
April said she’s concerned a prosecutor will fail to show up at the next hearing this month.
When asked how the cases are going to be covered now that Gardner has resigned, Diversion Manager Khatib Waheed for the Circuit Attorney’s Office said, “Well, let me say this: one of the things that we need to do to assure that is for you all to be more objective in your reporting.”
Then a woman, who said she represented imprisoned victims, called Waheed out. She said she’s failed to get answers for months. He walked away, saying, “Don’t ask me a question.” Another employee appeared to try to escort him further away as the woman shouted, “You guys are giving people false hope, that they’re going to get out of jail, or they have an application for it, but you don’t have the funding for it, so where’s all the funding?”
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She explained to FOX 2 later, saying, “This is about the prisoners of the Missouri Department of Corrections, who have submitted applications thinking that their cases are going to be looked into. This is what the office has said.”
The woman said she’s found no evidence the office is reviewing the applications. April holds out hope that it could get better.
“With things changing, good can always come from it, so I’m always going to stay positive and optimistic with anything and try not to be discouraged,” April said.
FOX 2 had identified a criminal hearing first thing Friday morning involving an accused murderer who’s been in jail for three years awaiting trial. The assigned prosecutor no longer works for the Circuit Attorney’s Office. We’ll be here to see what happens.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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