Missourians are being shot, stabbed, and killed.
The Attorney General is chasing no-chance games.
Below is a live, auto-updating wall of violent-crime headlines from Missouri newsrooms — homicides, shootings, carjackings, armed robberies. None of them got a press conference from AG Catherine Hanaway. A gas station owner with twelve gaming machines did.
The real crime in Missouri.
Auto-aggregated from local newsrooms, wire services, and Google News — filtered for murder, shootings, robberies, carjackings, stabbings, and other violent crime. Reaching back weeks, updating continuously.
What's actually killing Missourians
- Homicide clearance rates among the worst in the country
- Carjackings still elevated in St. Louis and Kansas City
- Repeat violent offenders cycling through the courts
- Fentanyl trafficking moving through the state
- Domestic-violence backlogs in rural counties
What the AG is actually prosecuting
- Felony charges against a single Brookline gas station owner
- Civil suits and injunctions against convenience stores
- A statewide crackdown on 'no-chance' gaming machines
- Press tours with local prosecutors and the Highway Patrol
- Public threats to any host store that doesn't 'unplug'
On March 18, 2026, AG Hanaway flew to Springfield to announce two felony counts of promoting gambling against the owner of one Greene County gas station — over twelve "no-chance" gaming machines. That single press conference is the statewide model her office is now exporting.
- Defendant
- Himanshu B. Patel
- Business
- Briarwood One Stop (convenience store / gas station)
- Location
- Brookline, Greene County
- Charges
- Two felony counts of first-degree promoting gambling + civil suit under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act + permanent injunction sought
Charges are allegations; defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.