Police identify man fatally shot outside St. Louis home

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have identified the man who was fatally shot outside a home a week ago as 43-year-old Patrick Evans of St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Saturday that officers found Evans with a puncture wound when they responded to a call for a burglary about 11 p.m. on Nov. 20 in the city’s College Hill area. He was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical responders. A 60-year-old man told police he had been inside the house when he heard a prowler at his back door. He said he fired at him when the man tried to enter through a kitchen window. The man who fired the shot was taken into custody.