Crime & Safety

Hazelwood Teen Shoots Man, Fires Several Shots into Local Home

The bullet grazed the victim's leg and he escaped serious injury, police said.

A Hazelwod teenager was charged with shooting a man and firing several shots into a local home at about 10:23 p.m. on Monday in the 200 block of Manning Avenue.

Howard W. Rogers III, 18, of the 100 block of Williams Boulevard in , was charged Wednesday with first degree-assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

said Rogers shot a .40 caliber pistol at a man, grazing his left leg. The man fled into a house and Rogers fired several more shots into the residence, police said in a report.

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Rogers is being held in St. Louis County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

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