ST. LOUIS • Two people were dead and ten others wounded after eight shootings in a 13-hour span from Friday night through Saturday morning in St. Louis, including a drive-by shooting outside a bar that wounded three people.

The first fatal shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. Friday in the 5600 block of Acme Avenue, St. Louis police said. Responding officers found a man dead with a gunshot wound to the head.

A second person was wounded in the shooting and fled a short distance to St. Louis County, where he was found by police officers and taken to a hospital. The 5600 block of Acme Avenue is in St. Louis' Walnut Park West Neighborhood, near the city border with the county.

Around the same time, three people were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside Midtown Sports Bar and Grill on Prairie Avenue, police said. All three victims were conscious and breathing when they were taken to a hospital for treatment. An update on their conditions was not immediately available Saturday.