Two women and the man suspected of shooting them were critically injured Saturday night, July 25, in House Springs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Deputies were called at about 8:30 p.m. to Doetzel Drive for a reported shooting. When they arrived, two women suffering from gunshot wounds were located, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
Deputies learned the alleged shooter was at a home across the street from where the women were found. When authorities approached the man outside the home, he shot himself, the report said.
The triple shooting occurred the day after two men were shot at a home on Lakeshore Drive in Cedar Hill.
On Friday night, July 24, a 24-year-old man was shot and killed, and a 51-year-old man was injured in a shooting. The man suspected of shooting the men had not been arrested as of today, Sheriff Dave Marshak said.
The Sheriff’s Office said the shootings in House Springs and Cedar Hill do not appear to be connected.
The Sheriff’s Office plans to hold a news conference today to address the two recent shootings.
The back-to-back shootings are the fourth incidents of gun violence in Jefferson County since near the end of June.
Two people, the 24-year-old man in Cedar Hill and a teenage girl at a home in the Hillsboro area, were killed in separate shootings, and one man and three juveniles have been charged in two of the shootings.
Chase Hoofman, 20, of Festus was charged two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of a weapon for allegedly shooting at a group of people on June 23 at the Cedar Hill River Access.
Hoofman was shot by people in the group who he allegedly shot at on June 23. He was treated and released from the hospital following the shooting, and on July 7, he was arrested and booked at the Jefferson County in Hillsboro.
As of today, he was being held without bond, according to jail records.
Three juveniles were charged after Gabbriana Boyster, 16, was shot and killed on July 10 at her home in the 7900 block of Tower Road north of Hillsboro. The Sheriff’s Office reported her body was found the next day.
The Sheriff’s Office reported that the three juveniles were believed to be at the home when Boyster was shot. The juveniles were turned over to the Jefferson County Juvenile Office.
One of the juveniles was charged with involuntary manslaughter, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse. The two other juveniles were each charged with abandonment of a corpse.
Authorities have not released the ages or additional information about the juveniles.
Boyster was an incoming junior at Hillsboro High School.