A 22-year-old British woman and the ex-girlfriend of a soccer player lost most of her right ear and lost the ability to move her right arm when she was mowed down by a car while hiding from nearby gunfire in St. Louis, Missouri. That’s what it means. lawyer.
Ellie Bentley, who moved to the city from Nottingham, England while dating soccer player Indiana Vassilev, was horribly injured when she ducked behind a car and was dragged three blocks under the tires of an out-of-control car. I suffered a loss. Ben Tobin told KMOX Radio.
Tobin said the gunshots scared him as a recent college graduate. “The driver of the car then knocked her car onto her floor, ran her over and pushed her under her car,” he said.
Her injuries were severe and required two weeks of intensive care and multiple surgeries.
“Her left leg has multiple fractures and she can’t move her left leg at all,” Tobin said. “The people here are [the hospital] This turned out to be the worst pelvic fracture they had ever seen. ”
She is just the latest victim of violence in one of America’s deadliest cities.
St. Louis, with a population of 293,000, recorded 200 homicides in 2022. This is a rate of 68 cases per 100,000 residents for the same year, the second highest rate among major U.S. cities.
Only New Orleans had a higher murder rate in 2022.
This number is 13 times higher than New York City’s murder rate and 2.5 times higher than Chicago’s murder rate.
Homicides dropped significantly in 2023, while most major cities reported a decline in violent crime.
So far in 2024, St. Louis has recorded 36 murders. Police statistics show. Guns are used in almost all murders.
Additionally, a 2023 study found that the Midwestern city ranked 11th in the nation for pedestrian deaths, with nearly 7 out of every 100,000 residents killed in 2021. According to Miller and Hein’s law.
Pedestrian fatalities, as well as violent crimes, have increased dramatically during the pandemic.
Police initially said the nearby shooting and the mowing down of the Bentley were related. But on Tuesday, they announced that an investigation found the two incidents were not related.
Diontae Taylor, 25, was later arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with bodily injury.
Ms Bentley’s lawyer said staff at a nearby bar saved her life by coming to her aid after she suffered severe injuries.
“She was lying in the road screaming for help,” Tobin said. “The Platypus bartender and staff gave her life-saving treatment.”
Bentley had moved to the United States to follow her American boyfriend Vassilev, who had moved to St. Louis FC after a stint at Aston Villa. The pair subsequently broke up.
Tobin said the road to recovery is long.
She started a GoFundMe and raised more than $21,000 to help pay for medical bills. She hopes to raise $75,000.
