By Associated Press - Monday, September 23, 2019

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Authorities say a man and woman were fatally shot in St. Louis during a day marked by violence.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood in the northern part of the city. The scene is near a high-crime area where Police Chief John Hayden has pledged to focus resources.

Police say both victims were shot multiple times. Their names weren’t immediately released.

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The shootings capped a violent day in which a 40-year-old man was shot to death and another man was shot and critically wounded in an attempted robbery.

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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com

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