The streets of East St. Louis were filled with screams and gunfire this morning as a naked man with an AK-47 went on a shooting rampage from behind the wheel of a stolen PT Cruiser Convertible.


Here's the time line of the shooting rampage in East St. Louis this morning, as constructed from various reports:

Naked man steals PT Cruiser

Police arrive, while they're on the scene they get a report of a man shooting at random cars

A few minutes later someone holds up a garbage truck and demands a wallet, but the garbage truck driver wrestles the gun away. The man escapes, fully clothed.

The now-clothed naked man comes back, asking for the gun because it's not his gun.

Police show up and chase the clothed suspect in the PT Cruiser, who fires on them while trying to escape

Naked man crashes and escapes into the woods. Is eventually caught.



The woman who was shot is expected to be fine. The motive and name of the carjacker/shooter have yet to be released, but it's worth noting there was another carjacker with a notably similar modus operandi who struck St. Louis overnight Thursday into Friday.


Here's an informative map of map of what happened.

[STL Today, KMOV, and RFT]