Just before midnight on Sunday, September 10, 2023, gunfire erupted inside the Samuel Gompers Homes in East St. Louis. By the time responders converged on North Sixth Street, three people had been hit. A 29-year-old Black male, Deontrus A. Gilmore of East St. Louis, was mortally wounded; he was identified by the St. Clair County coroner and pronounced a short time later at 12:53 a.m. on Monday, September 11, 2023, fixing the date of death that morning at a residence in the 400–450 block of N
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