ST. LOUIS – One woman is hurt after a fender-bender crash escalated into a shooting Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a Lee’s Chicken restaurant in north St. Louis, police say.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Saturday in the 6200 block of West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis’ North Pointe neighborhood.
A police spokesperson at the scene tells FOX 2 that there was a fender bender between two cars that triggered the shooting. After the collision, three men got out of a car and ran up to a female driver in a silver Buick vehicle.
The driver was shot. Police say she was taken to a hospital “conscious and breathing.” One passenger inside the woman’s vehicle was not shot or injured.
The three suspects took off in their car in an unknown direction.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is handling this investigation.