An 8-year-old girl was shot dead in St. Louis near a high school event

An 8-year-old girl was killed and three other people injured in a shooting near a high school football event in St. Louis. Police are looking for a suspect

Investigators are looking for whoever fired the shots. The girl is the 12th child or teenager killed by gunfire in the Missouri city since April, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The girl, two teenage boys and a woman were shot near Soldan High School, police said. The girl had just attended a football jamboree -- a series of preseason scrimmages -- at the school with the two teens, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.

He also didn't say what led to the gunfire.Read More"The little girl wasn't doing anything wrong," Hayden said."She was with family when this occurred. Shots rang out. Not sure what particular fight that was going on when shots rang out."The names and information about the conditions of the injured teens and woman weren't immediately released. Police didn't immediately know who fired the shots.

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