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  • A looter with a gun in his waistband steals items from a QuikTrip in Ferguson after riots broke out after a candlelight vigil for Michael Brown on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2014. Hours earlier, hundreds of people had peacefully gathered for a vigil on the spot where Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer. Police were also present at the vigil, but as dusk gave way to night, the crowd’s frustration turned to anger. Rocks and bottles were thrown at officers and police responded with dogs, riot gear and an armored truck. A short time after this photo was shot the store was set on fire.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • A member of the St. Louis County Police tactical team fires tear gas into a crowd of people on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson in response to gunshots fired at police during protests on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. For more than two weeks, police and protesters clashed nightly as civil unrest and protests exploded after Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • J'vonte Jones, 8, holds up a cellphone to record video of St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson (left) as Dotson takes questions from the community after briefing the press about an incident where two St. Louis police officers shot a 14-year-old boy in the 5000 block of Beacon Avenue in St. Louis on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. {quote}This shouldn't be their normal,{quote} said J'vonte's mother Crystal Brown (not pictured). Dotson says the 14-year-old fired one shot at police who were chasing him, police returned fire, hitting the boy who was taken to the hospital. The boy survived.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • About 1,000 protesters block the street outside the St. Louis Justice Center on Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. Protesters raised money to bail people out of jail after police arrested 123 people on Sunday. Protests began on Friday after former police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty in the 2011 fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Ashley Johnston and Richard Skinner shoot heroin in the kitchen of Johnston's home in St. Louis on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Both have used heroin off and on for years. Johnston, who is six months pregnant with her fourth child, is trying to kick her habit with methadone, but recently missed a few methadone doses because of car problems. Skinner says he uses his stints in jail to get clean. Johnston and Skinner have one child together. Johnston and Skinner's child is cared for by Johnston's mother, who also cares for Johnston's other two children.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Richard Skinner shoots heroin on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, into a vein near a tattoo he got during a stint in prison years earlier. {quote}Heroin is the only thing that ever stole my soul. I'm not me anymore{quote} says Skinner.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Toddler Donovan Allen, 2, stands outside his home in the 1100 block of Dillion Street as police investigate a fatal shooting in the 1400 block of Kealty Lane in St. Louis on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Donovan's mother, not pictured, was sitting on the front steps of her home to the left watching police investigate the scene. Police tape and evidence markers denoting bullet casings were put up right outside the front steps of the Allens home. It was the third fatal shooting in a month that occurred within 100 yards of Donovan's home. The suspect in the shooting returned to the scene driving a minivan and surrendered to police, who recovered a gun from the vehicle.Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Jon Clark is hoisted up on the shoulders of the Webster Groves boys basketball team after they defeated Rockwood Summit 80-30 on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Clark, who is battling brain cancer, was the guest coach for the night. The win was his 100th as boys basketball coach.Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • {quote}I love it, I asked them to paint something to match my hat,{quote} said Tamika Riely, from O'Fallon, Mo., as she shows off her patriotic spirit during Fair St. Louis in Forest Park on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • The supermoon rises over the Arch in St. Louis as seen from the Compton Hill Water Tower on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. The supermoon will peak on early Monday morning shortly before sunrise. It will be the nearest supermoon in almost 70 years and will be the largest until Nov. 25, 2034. A supermoon happens when a full moon makes its closest pass to Earth, appearing up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter in the sky. Viewing of the moon should also be good on Monday after the sun sets and the moon rises out of the east. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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