EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A manhunt for the gunmen accused of shooting seven people in East St. Louis ended early Friday with the arrests of three suspects in the basement of a partly demolished building.
The Illinois State Police said seven people, including a child, were shot about 4 p.m. Thursday in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and North Sixth Street. They were hospitalized, but their conditions weren't released.
Police swarmed the area in the search for the shooters. More than 10 hours later, at 2:30 a.m. Friday, officers about a block from the crime scene arrested three people in a building in the 600 block of St. Louis Avenue.
