When police responded to calls for a shooting early this morning, they were already too late.

Jermaine Johnson, twenty, was lying unconscious at the corner of Darby Street and Natural Bridge Avenue, police say. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body -- and police pronounced him dead on the scene.

He is the 34th homicide victim this year in the city of St. Louis.

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Update: Police announced this afternoon that Zachary Barber, 28, has been charged with involuntarily manslaughter -- after he allegedly struck his two-year-old son, who died a short while later. Our original coverage is below.

Police say that an autopsy revealed Isiah Barber was struck in the chest. And a probable cause statement from the St. Louis circuit attorney, on view below, says that the father admitted to police that he had hit his son.

The father remains in custody and a judge set a $100,000 cash only bond.

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The latest homicide victim in St. Louis is one of the youngest of the year so far.

St. Louis metro police say that yesterday Pierre Childs, age sixteen, was found lying on the grass between the street and sidewalk at around 5 p.m. after officers received a call for a shooting.

He was unconscious -- and by the time they made it to a nearby hospital, he was dead on arrival, cops say. The shooting took place on the 4800 block of Anderson Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood -- reportedly on the same street where there was another shooting less than 24 hours earlier.

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Terrance Morgan, 41, is the 31st homicide victim in the city of St. Louis in 2013.

Morgan, who lived on Stoddard Street in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood of north St. Louis, was found on the ground in a rear alley at around 5 p.m. yesterday, police say.

Witnesses told police that they heard gunshots and then observed a black man fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

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St. Louis metro police officers responded last night to calls of a shooting -- and when they arrived at the 4900 block of Arlington Avenue, they found a bloody scene.

Police say that they located Julius Caldwell, the 34-year-old shooting victim, sitting inside the driver's seat of a parked car. He was "lifeless."

The suspect is an unknown black male who reportedly fled the scene after firing shots at Caldwell and the investigation is ongoing.

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Update: St. Louis metro police have just released the identity of a woman who was found strangled to death in an alleyway this week. Our original coverage is below.

47-year-old Aretha Robinson, who lived on the 4500 block of Natural Bridge Avenue, is the homicide victim who was abandoned on South Jefferson Avenue and found Monday morning, officials say.

As we reported earlier, police had a person of interest that was in custody -- but that individual has since been released and no charges have been filed.

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Less than 24 hours after a woman was found strangled to death in an alleyway, St. Louis metro police say that another woman has been killed -- in a robbery last night that turned very violent.

39-year-old Glenda Jackson, a 55-year-old female and another male were victimized last night when five men robbed them at gun point on the 4300 block of Warne Avenue near College Hill, police say.

Jackson reportedly tried to retrieve the stolen property when one of the men shot her.

She is the 28th homicide victim in the city of St. Louis this year.

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On Saturday night, five men were involved in a shooting near Riverview Plaza that left one twenty-year-old man dead and another injured. Two suspects remain at large.

Tyrell Washington, twenty, was fatally shot in the chest and found lying on the sidewalk, police say. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Another twenty-year-old male was hit in the wrist but refused medical treatment.

This is the 26th homicide of the year in the city of St. Louis.

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As we reported last week, police say St. Louis resident Terence Anderson shot his girlfriend Nichole Haynes, 32, in the head as she was trying to escape. Haynes' fifteen-year-old daughter was caught in the gunfire and sent to the hospital -- but she survived. Anderson was eventually chased down by police who shot and killed him.

"We grew up together," Brandy Costello, a close friend of Haynes, tells Daily RFT. "She was a very loving, very good person."

The tragic death has encouraged Costello to spring into action, she says, in part, because this is not the first close friend she has lost to domestic violence.

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Police believe that a 21-year-old woman shot and killed Kelvin Houston, also 21, in North City over the weekend -- but she hasn't been charged.

That's because witnesses weren't cooperating, police say, which means they didn't have enough information to charge her after her arrest and she isn't being named at this time. Metro police confirm to Daily RFT that she has in fact been released and there haven't been any other arrests in the Saturday night shooting.

The incident occurred during an especially violent weekend with a fatal stabbing and another shooting both at Laclede's Landing -- as well as shootings in at least three other locations within city limits.

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