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St. Louis volleyball community offers support for Janae Edmondson
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ST. LOUIS – Support is strong within the volleyball community for Janae Edmondson, nearly one week after she lost her legs in a St. Louis crash while in town for a tournament.
Volleyball teams around the nation, including St. Louis, are rallying behind Edmondson and taking on new challenges with her in mind.
The St. Louis Crossfire Elite Volleyball Club’s team color is teal. But on Thursday night, players dawned a different color at practice. Players wore purple, representing Jane Edmondson’s favorite color.
“The St. Louis volleyball community is super tight-knit, like all volleyball communities,” said Jeremie Wells, south division director within the St. Louis Crossfire Elite Volleyball Club. “We are not the only team supporting her and her family.”
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Edmondson played volleyball for Smyrna High School in Tennessee. The team colors are purple and yellow. Some of Edmondson’s closest allies launched the ‘Purple Challenge,’ using the color to show support for the 17-year-old after the tragedy.
“What we love about purple is it represents spring,” said Jeff Wiser with the Middle Tennessee Volleyball Club. “It represents new life. It represents joy. It represents a vision of rebirth.”
On Thursday, Crossfire Elite not only wore purple to show support, but also Edmondson’s number 23. The team came together to pray for the Tennessee teen.
“We are all very concerned about every kid across the board, whether they play for us or not,” said Mike Sanders with St. Louis Crossfire Elite.
On Thursday, the athletic director for Edmondson’s team shared that she was alert and able to interact with her family members in recent days. The team has put together a GoFundMe, trying to raise nearly a million dollars for Edmondon’s medical bills.
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The Edmondson family has also been put in contact with a mother of one of the players for Crossfire Elite. That parent is an above-the-knee amputee and serves on the scientific and medical advisory board for the amputee coalition.
“It’s a unique position we are actually put in, so it’s been a really nice fit for us and a great opportunity for our family to serve theirs,” said Sanders.
The GoFundMe is nearly halfway to its million-dollar goal.
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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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