ST. LOUIS • From the 1900 block of Warren Street, where five people were wounded early Tuesday in a wild night of gunfire, downtown’s office towers and the Gateway Arch are within sight. Girls jump rope in the street as toddlers frolic on the stone stoops of 19th-century row houses. As the kids played noisily Tuesday evening, a police car rolled slowly down the street. Juanita Sparks, 60, sat at her front door with a granddaughter and said she plans to move out. “I am tired of thugs,” said Starks, who has lived on the block for three years. “We go in at night and stay in, no matter what. It’s too rough a life here.” Not just on the 1900 block of Warren, at least not during a six-hour period...
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