ST. LOUIS • The wounding of a man in a downtown carjacking attempt Tuesday night was about a block from the scene of a carjacking Sunday night and three blocks from where a woman was slain in a carjacking in May.

The latest victim, a man 29, was said to be "stable" in a hospital Wednesday with a gunshot wound in the forehead. His attackers got away.

Police said he was stopped for a traffic signal at Olive and 11th streets when one man walked up and two others stood nearby on the sidewalk.

The driver "motioned for the suspects to back away," police said. As the light turned green, he started forward and one of the men fired into his car window.

The men ran and the victim drove away and struck the back of another car and a flower planter at Olive and 9th streets. Officials said he was responsive when an ambulance arrived.

There was no detailed description of the attackers.

At about 11 p.m. Sunday, two men stole an SUV at gunpoint from a man who was sitting in the Oldsmobile Bravada, parked on the east side of the 400 block of North 11th Street. That is near Locust Street, about a block north of Tuesday night's attack. They fled north on 11th and west on Washington Avenue.