BREAKING: Attempted Assassination of Police Officer In St. Louis

By Bob Owens

Here we go again with another targeted assassination attempt of a police officer in a squad car, this time in St. Louis.

A St. Louis police sergeant was rushed to a hospital Sunday evening after being shot twice in the face.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson said the officer was in critical but stable condition. He was talking to investigators and was expected to survive.

KTVI reported that the shooting occurred in south St. Louis at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time.

The officer was sitting in his car at an intersection with the windows rolled up when a silver vehicle pulled up. Someone inside the car opened fire at least twice. Bullets broke through the glass and struck the officer.

Dotson said the officer was not responding to a call and was targeted because he was sitting in a marked police vehicle.

“He didn’t have any chance to react to this threat,” the chief said of the injured officer.

The officer was not immediately identified, but St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay told reporters that he was married and had three children.