Crime & Safety
No Arrests, Investigation Into Fatal Shooting Continues
University City Police continue to search for the person that shot Destinee Clemons, 17.
continue to search for suspects in the Thursday night drive-by shooting of 17-year-old Destinee Clemons.
Fox2News reports police have a description of the vehicle and that officers are looking for four black males..
Clemons was shot and killed on her front porch on Plymouth Ave. around 8 p.m. Thursday night. Her sister, 23-year-old Jerry′Ka McCauley, was sitting next to her and was struck in the arm. Her wound was not serious.
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Clemons' mother Kendra Jackson, 43, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she couldn't think of a motive for the shooting. The family had moved from St. Louis to University City in March.
According to the Post-Dispatch, Jackson told detectives there were "no troubles, nothing like that" from the old neighborhood. We don't know who they are."
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Clemons' cousin told Fox2News that Destinee was full of life.
“Destinee was a kind and loving person, she was very funny, she was the life of our family, she always told jokes, she just had her prom, she just graduated, she had plans for her birthday on July 9, she was a very loving person, full of life,” Kyra Jackson.
Clemons attended and worked at the in Brentwood.
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