UPDATED at 10:30 p.m. with additional information from police department.
EAST ST. LOUIS • A man was shot to death at a gas station at 83rd and State streets, police said Wednesday night.
Police were dispatched to a shooting at the Mobil gas station, 8301 State Street, around 6:22 p.m. They found 46-year-old Craig Tolson, shot multiple times in the abdomen. Tolson, of East St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene just after 7 p.m., police said.
Tolson's is the 13th confirmed homicide in the city this year.
Francella Jackson, the East St. Louis police department's director of community programs, said Tolson was a janitor at Dunbar Elementary School.
Police said there are no suspects in the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call Special Agent Melvin at 618-346-3769 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-371-8477.


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