Police ID man killed Friday in shooting in St. Louis suburb

December 26, 2021 GMT

WELLSTON, Mo. (AP) — Police have identified the 58-year-old man who was killed in a shooting in a St. Louis suburb on Friday.

Officials with the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis said Sunday that Derrick Brookfield was killed in the shooting early Friday morning in Wellston. A second man who was found in critical condition after the shooting remained hospitalized Sunday, but police did not release his name.

The shooting was reported around 1:30 a.m. Friday near the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Ogden Avenue in Wellston.