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East St. Louis shoppers caught off guard with Save A Lot store closure
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Fairmont City’s Killian Weir was on his way to get groceries from East St. Louis’s Save A Lot on Vieux Carre Drive when he noticed an empty parking lot and a sign on the supermarket’s door.
“It says sorry, we’re closed, with two little sad faces on it,” Weir said on Tuesday. “I knew nothing about it.”
Unlike the warning, Cahokia Heights shoppers were given about the recent Walmart closing, East St. Louis shoppers found it when they approached the store’s front door.
“You could’ve knocked me over with a feather when I saw this store was closed,” Weir said.
Weir said he’s been noticing a trend of stores closing. First, it was his local independent grocery store, Foodland, in Fairmont City. Then there was the Cahokia Heights Walmart, and now there is the Save A Lot, which, according to a nearby Da Grind Fitness employee, Kenyun Newble, closed last week.
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“I was sad because I supported the business,” Newble said. “We’ve been telling people it’s closed now, so you have to go get your groceries from somewhere else.”
Save A Lot could not be reached for comment on why the store closed.
Alonzo Perrin is one of those shoppers who stopped by on Tuesday with his mother.
“My mom lives right up the street, and this is a place I would go to normally if I need to get her some stuff for her coffee,” Perrin said.
He had even partnered with the store owner on community events.
Weir said he is hoping someone will still take over the store and bring it back.
“Hopefully, Save A Lot can hook up with fresh blood, and we can get a grocery store back in here,” he said.
East St. Louis does have another Save A Lot store open about five miles away.
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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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