Osama Ayyad

1 week ago | ksdk.com | Osama Ayyad

The driver, 27-year-old Tawon D. Ricks, complied with police only after he crashed and disabled the Mercedes. ST. LOUIS — A man evading St. Louis police after driving recklessly in the city crashed a Mercedes into a tractor-trailer Thursday on Interstate 70, police said in court records. The driver, 27-year-old Tawon D. Ricks of St. Louis, complied with police only after the crash disabled both vehicles on I-70 near Shreve Avenue, court records said.

1 week ago | ksdk.com | Osama Ayyad

Accident Reconstruction investigators were called to the scene. ST. LOUIS — A person was killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles in St. Louis late Saturday night, a statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said. According to the SLMPD statement, the crash happened around 11:35 p.m., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard meets Whittier Street. That places the crash where the Vandeventer neighborhood meets the Ville area.

2 weeks ago | wkyc.com | Osama Ayyad

ST. LOUIS — The family of Nyla Simmons said she was supposed to start cosmetology school on Monday. Instead, her family is now planning her funeral. At about 11:20 p.m. Saturday, Simmons was struck and killed by a firetruck after falling from an SUV at the intersection of S. Compton and Chouteau, near the border of the Midtown and Gate neighborhoods. Simmons' family said they'll remember her vibrant spirit and the bright future that was taken far too soon.

2 weeks ago | wtsp.com | Osama Ayyad

ST. LOUIS — The family of Nyla Simmons said she was supposed to start cosmetology school on Monday. Instead, her family is now planning her funeral. At about 11:20 p.m. Saturday, Simmons was struck and killed by a firetruck after falling from an SUV at the intersection of S. Compton and Chouteau, near the border of the Midtown and Gate neighborhoods. Simmons' family said they'll remember her vibrant spirit and the bright future that was taken far too soon.

2 weeks ago | 12news.com | Osama Ayyad

ST. LOUIS — A woman died after she was struck by a firetruck in St. Louis late Saturday night, according to police. A witness told investigators that the woman had fallen from an SUV onto the roadway before she was hit, police said. The woman killed in the crash was named by police Sunday morning. "The woman has been identified as 18-year-old Nyla Simmons of the 1300 block of Orchard Lakes Drive," police said.