ST. LOUIS (AP) — A homeless man is charged with attacking four other homeless people with a hammer as they slept in a vacant St. Louis school building, critically injuring two of the victims.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2tUqENW ) reports that 61-one-year-old Edward Moore was charged Sunday with four counts of assault and armed criminal action. Bond is set at $500,000. No attorney is listed in online court records.
The four victims were taken to a hospital Saturday with head injuries. Police say a man and woman were listed in critical condition. Another man and woman were listed as stable.
The former school north of downtown closed in 1978.
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Police say Moore attacked the others because he believed they had ransacked his personal belongings.
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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com