Police dispatchers did not have more details.

The 14-year-old girl was shot in the arm shortly before 4:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of O'Fallon Street, police said. She was conscious and breathing when she was taken to a hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.

The shooting scene is in the Carr Square neighborhood just north of downtown.

About 9:45 p.m., a 5-year-old was wounded in a shooting in the 5900 block of Lucille Avenue. The child was hit in the buttocks, police said.

The scene is in the Walnut Park West neighborhood, north of Interstate 70 and just west of Lewis and Clark Boulevard.

In another shooting, police say a vehicle was struck a number of times by gunfire from another vehicle from I-70 and Grand Boulevard to Interstate 70 and Lindbergh Boulevard in south St. Louis County.

No one was hit by the gunfire, but someone was hit by shrapnel. That incident happened about 8 p.m.

Editor's note: This story has been revised to reflect that police did not release the gender of the wounded 5-year-old.

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