• Local artist Brock Seals holding the themed Cardinal baseball cap he created for the teams African American Heritage Day at the ball park Monday Sept. 6, 2021. 

  • Local artist Brock Seals holding the themed Cardinal baseball cap he created for the teams African American Heritage Day at the ball park Mnoday Sept. 6, 2021. 

  • A Humvee containing the body of fallen Marine Jared Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri, leaves St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Schmitz was among the 13 American service members and more than a hundred Afghans killed in a suicide bombing on August 26, 2021, near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. 

  • Ciara Ruffin and her daughter Chloe Stephenson 11, walk the rows of American flags on Art Hill in Forest Park that represent and honor the lives that have been lost over the past 20 years since 9/11. 

  • Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher and National Baseball Hall of Fame member Lee Smith throws a ceremonial first pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

  • St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden speaking at a press conference. 

  • St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden and St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones walk down the steps of City Hall Wed. 

  • Lift For Life’s Derell Jones (11) stretched out to catch a pass during game action Fri. Sept. 3, 2021 at Lutheran North. The Crusaders would defeat the Hawks 20-8. 

  • Lift For Life running back Da’Kion Phillips (21) breaks through for extra yards during game action Friday Sept 3, 2021. 

  • De Smet’s Demetrion Cannon (6) misses a pass off close coverage by East St. Louis Flyer’s Dallas Brown (25) during game action Friday Sept. 3, 2021 at Eastside. The Flyers would defeat the Spartans 32-17. 

  • East St. Louis Flyer’s Antwon Hayden (21) leaps over the tackle of teammate Dallas Brown (25) on De Smet’s Gavin Bomstad (3) during game action Sat. Sept. 4, 2021 at Clyde C. Jordan Stadium in East St. Louis, Ill. The Flyers would defeat the Spartans 32-17. 

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