Richmond Heights resident, Connor Cole, who lives on Edward Terrace told 40 South News he saw four police cars Thursday morning— St. Louis County and Richmond Heights K9 units—that “seemed to be doing some kind of stakeout.”
Tammara Hunter Durham said on Twitter Thursday morning, “any news on burglary suspects in RH, trying to rob a home, then t-boned a police car in the chase, but ran off on foot?”
Richmond Heights Police reported on their website, that at approximately 8 a.m. a burglary was discovered in the 1100 block of Edward Terrace. Two suspects were seen fleeing the area. One may be wearing his hair in dreadlocks. Later on Thursday, police posted they are seeking three suspects.
Richmond Heights Police reported further information later Thursday:
About 7:30 a.m., Richmond Heights police officers responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle, described as a white Subaru station wagon, backed into a driveway of a house in the 1100 block of Edward Terrace.
While responding to the call, an officer saw a black male walk out of the rear door of the house while carrying a safe. That suspect fled on foot.
Two other black male suspects fled the house, one on foot and the other in the Subaru station wagon.
Another officer responding to the incident in his patrol vehicle approached the Subaru on an adjacent street. The Subaru reversed slowly and stopped in an apparent effort to surrender.
When the officer got out of his patrol vehicle, the suspect drove forward and struck the driver’s side door of the police vehicle, narrowly missing the officer.
A brief pursuit of the Subaru took place, but officers eventually terminated the pursuit because of the dangerous traffic conditions caused by the suspect’s vehicle. A search of the burglary scene failed to locate the other two suspects who fled on foot.
On Oct. 7 Richmond Heights Police notified residents of three recent daytime residential burglaries. Suspects entered the homes by force and the homes were unoccupied at the time.
Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to call Richmond Heights Detective Bureau at (314) 645-3000.
I’m not sure why my tweet was quoted in your article. I tweeted a question to South News because I did not know what happened. I had only heard about the incident from third party sources and I was asking 40 South News for information. Posting my comment was very confusing. Some friends and acquaintances who saw my remarks contacted me asking things like, “Are you OK??”, “What happened?”, etc. It was embarrassing. Next time if a similar thing comes up, please ask me first before quoting me. Thanks! 🙂
OK, Tamara, sorry. Usually something on Twitter is public info, and ok to be quoted.
I was robbed on October 13. I never saw that posted although I was one of three other Maplewood robberies that same morning. I live in RH and dealt with the RH police department. I had to call them three days later to report that the back steel door on first level had been obviously pried; wood is missing from frame and the door edge is damaged. They apologized for missing that! Why would you not check all doors not just the basement door left open. I have had conflicting conversations with two of the policement/detective. One told me they got a partial and the other claimed he tried to take prints in my bedroom. There was no evidence of that in terms of fingerprints dust left on my dresser or jewelry box, ets. Obviously they did not think to try to take prints off of the back door as they admitted they did not consider that as a source of entry or exit. RH has a reason to worry as much is this is happening.
That’s an egregious lack of diligence in investigating your home’s burglary. I would document these things and bring them up at the next town meeting, write them in a letter to the mayor, council, etc. They might have their reasons for being so slipshod, but they should answer as to why things unfolded this way…..
The police chase down Big Bend was insane this morning!!
Ok, enough. These same guys who have been doing this all around the neighborhood for weeks should of been caught by now. Let’s get on this and now! The neighbors are getting tired and this is insane. Obviously, these men have no fear and we need more cooperation from neighbors and more police action. Can we pull from the Galleria some of these officers? These two men should of been caught by now!
Agree completely. Why haven’t they been caught? They are so brazen, committing these crimes in broad daylight, and they have done it and gotten away every time, so many times…