EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) \u2014 A teenager accused of dressing as a clown and randomly stabbing a man to death at a bus stop in the St. Louis area has been charged with murder, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Video of the 15-year-old suspect showed him dressed in a clown costume, Illinois State Police said.<\/p>\n
Police in East St. Louis, Illinois, found the body of 78-year-old John W. Allen of Jennings, Missouri, in a street Monday. Jennings is also in the St. Louis area.<\/p>\n
Allen\u2019s relatives told media outlets in St. Louis that he was a Navy veteran, a retired bus driver and an active churchgoer. They believe he was in East St. Louis to visit family members when the attack happened.<\/p>\n
State officers quickly identified a suspect and later arrested a 15-year-old boy at a residence, according to Illinois State Police. <\/p>\n
The teenager, whose name has not been released, was charged with first-degree murder Thursday. He appeared in juvenile court Thursday and will be detained until at least his next hearing, said Chris Allen, a spokesperson for the St. Clair County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
A message seeking comment was left with the county public defender\u2019s office, which represented the teen in court. <\/p>\n
The prosecutor\u2019s office is seeking to move the case out of juvenile court so that it can prosecute the teen as an adult. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) \u2014 A teenager accused of dressing as a clown and randomly stabbing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1935,32816,434,50,8,224,919,918,32815,166,1991,3162,9,6295,7373,7,54,917],"class_list":["post-62556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-assault","tag-chris-allen","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-john-w-allen","tag-law-enforcement","tag-missouri","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-news","tag-st-louis","tag-teens","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s-news","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117056321743510642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}