SLMPD adds 2 to homicide total

Police give STL homicide total while investigating more shooting deaths
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a man that happened Saturday afternoon on Alabama Avenue. That's in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis.

That follows a Friday evening shooting death in the Baden neighborhood. Police detained a 47-year-old man for the killing of a 46-year-old.

Those reports come as St. Louis Metropolitan Police say through the first ten months of the year, the city's homicide total was at 119, the fewest since 2013's count of 94.

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