A look back at May 2023 photos by Post

May 31, 2023

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The Rev. Henry Purcell, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Zell, Mo. hurries back to the rectory on Thursday, May 4, 2023, before the start of a Confirmation ceremony Mass at the Ste. Genevieve County parish. St. Louis Auxiliary Bishop Mark Rivituso confirmed 11 youth from several rural parishes in Ste. Genevieve County. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Members of the St. Genevieve Riverdogs U9 baseball team do a cheer prior to the start of a game at Plummer Family Park in Edwardsville on Saturday, May 6, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis police Officer Louis Naes, with the Problem Properties Unit, makes a call to Places for People to help relocate a homeless woman and her son, who were living in a condemned property in the 4100 block of Taft Avenue on Monday, April 24, 2023, in the Bevo Mill neighborhood. Naes responded to a report of squatters living inside the property.

A visitor ponders Dale Chihuly's "Summer Sun" on May 11, 2023, during Chihuly Nights at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Dr. Anthony Fauci shakes the hand of graduating student Erica Barnell as she holds her son, Kenny Newcomer, 9 months, as she walks across the stage during a commencement ceremony for students graduating from the Washington University School of Medicine on Monday, May 15, 2023, at Washington University in St. Louis.

Bishop Mark Rivituso, center left, auxiliary bishop of the St. Louis Archdiocese lays, hands on eighth grader Josef Rottler on Thursday, May 4, 2023, to complete his sacrament of Confirmation as his grandmother and sponsor Sharen(cq) Gettinger, right, presents him at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Zell, Mo. The Rev. Henry Purcell, pastor, left, and Deacon Allen Engelmann serve as officiates at the ceremony that performed 11 confirmations for eighth graders from 7 of area Ste. Genevieve County parishes. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Matt Blumenfeld, center, Joe Young, left, and other lay Catholic leaders from rural Ste. Genevieve County parishes meet April 27, 2023, at the Zell volunteer fire department to discuss ways to guard their churches from being shut down by St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski's plan to consolidate the archdiocese.

Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

A motorist passes Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ozora, Mo. on Thursday, May 4, 2023, on State Rte N in Ste. Genevieve County. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Paul Flieg shovels corn inside a grain silo on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, as he prepares to grind chicken feed at his Ste. Genevieve County farm. Flieg and his wife, Mickey, are regulars at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Zell, Missouri. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

With images of Jesus stacked nearby, Mickey Flieg, left, welcomes Cheryl Bauman, a customer seeking flowers and herbs at her Ste. Genevieve County farm's greenhouse, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Flieg and her husband, Paul, are regulars at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Zell, Mo. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Governor Mike Parson addresses media Tuesday, May 16, 20223, at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park in St. Louis about the procedure to replace St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly A. Gardner after she suddenly left office earlier in the day. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

"He doesn't know I'm here." St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Jack Flaherty gets a surprise visit from his mother Eileen Flaherty on Monday May 15, 2023, between the the seventh and eighth inning of a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Giovanny Gallegos reacts after giving up ninth-inning home runs on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, to lose a game against the Los Angeles Angles at Busch Stadium. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinal infielder Tommy Edman dives and misses a ball hit by Angels outfielder Hunter Renfroe on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in the first inning of a game at Busch Stadium. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinal infielder Nolan Arenado waits for the inning changeover on Friday, May 5, 2023, in the seventh inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

"All clear," says St. Louis police Officer Louis Naes, with the Problem Properties Unit, as he investigates inside a boarded-up, condemned business in the 3900 block of South Grand Avenue on Monday, April 24, 2023, in Dutchtown. A city inspector reached out to the unit asking for the property to be re-secured.

"I have been staying here six months. It got cold last night," said Ronald Howell as he hovers over a fire in back of a boarded up property on East Schirmer Street on Monday, April 24, 2023, in the Patch neighborhood.

"I was driving down the street. The rain was coming down so hard I could not see the water in the street. My car started floating and it just stopped," said Kim Burt of south St. Louis, who waits for a tow truck to pull her out of a flooded area in the 5000 block of North Kingshighway on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Residents say the area always flash floods after a rain because trash clogs the sewage drain in that location. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, [email protected]

The Cardinals' Nolan Gorman celebrates his three-run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Victor Gonzalez to give the Cardinals a 6-3 lead in the eighth inning on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at Busch Stadium.

With the steeple of Assumption Catholic church in the background, Saint Martha's Hall Development Director Gina Joly plants an artificial flower honoring a victim of domestic violence on Monday, May 1, 2023, in the memorial garden at Saint Martha's domestic violence drop-in center in South County. The garden surrounds a house previously owned by Assumption that has been repurposed.

First grader Emery Black, 6, enjoys riding underneath streamers on her balance bike during class on Tuesday, May 1, 2023, at Long Elementary school, a Lindbergh district school in Crestwood. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, [email protected]

Veteran Jeffrey Rodgers gets off his bike to take photos as Archie Richardson, with Monuments of St. Louis, engraves names on the St Louis' Vietnam War Memorial on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in the Court of Honor at Soldiers Memorial downtown.

"If they close this one, I am not going to be able to take it, I don't think. It's very difficult when they close a parish and you have been a lifelong member of it," said Elaine Houlihan of St. Charles, after 8 a.m. Mass on Sunday, May 28, 2023, outside St. Francis of Assisi in Portage Des Sioux. Houlihan and her husband joined St. Francis of Assisi after Immaculate Conception in West Alton was closed in 2019.

John White and his daughter Sofia, of the Shaw neighborhood, visit a growing flower memorial to Tina Turner on her star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in the Loop on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Turner, raised as a teenager in St. Louis and born in Nutbush, Tenn., died Tuesday in her Switzerland home.

Jason Johaningmeyer does an ollie, a skateboarding trick where the rider leaps into the air without the use of his hands, alongside his dog Luna on the Marconi Avenue pedestrian overpass over Interstate 44 in the Hill neighborhood on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

Defense attorney Terry Neihoff buries his face in his hands as he and T.J. Mathes await a prosecutor to argue a motion to dismiss two murder charges against two defendants in Judge Michael Noble's courtroom in the Carnahan Courthouse on Monday, May 1, 2023. The prosecutor, who was filling in for another prosecutor who resigned that morning, was running 20 minutes late from being in other courtrooms.

Johnetta Doss lies with her granddaughters, Royal Rhodes and Princess Allen, at bedtime in her home on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Doss’ daughter Carieal, 18, was shot three years ago in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. Princess’ mother, Dasia Allen, went missing in April 2022 and was found shot dead in a lot in the Riverview neighborhood.

Chase Ali, 8, releases a balloon in memory of his sister Carieal Doss, 18, during a survivor's ball held at Anthony's Place in north St. Louis County on Friday, April 28, 2023.

After staying awake all night, Thomas Williams battles muscle spasms as fatigue sets in at his Florissant home on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. "I can't accept living like this," said Williams, who was shot and paralyzed from the waist down in 2020. "I want so much more for my life."

A young girl plays inside the crime scene where St. Louis police officers investigate where a man was shot numerous times in a car in the 4500 block of Carter Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood on Sunday, May 7, 2023.

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado watches highlights from last night's game before playing the Los Angeles Dodgers at Busch Stadium on Friday, May 19, 2023. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright enters the field for his first start of the 2023 season against the Detroit Tigers at Busch Stadium on Saturday, May 6, 2023. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

While the St. Louis Cardinals were down six runs in the sixth inning, a squirrel appeared in the dugout, beneath the legs of coach Willie McGee during their game against the Los Angeles Angels at Busch Stadium on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty walks from the field after giving up four runs in the second inning, including a three-run home run hit by the Angels' Luis Rengifo, at Busch Stadium on Thursday, May 4, 2023.

An ATV rider pulls a wheelie, passing the Gateway Arch on North Fourth Street while riding with a group of motorcyclists through downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

Ben Cohen, 4, hides in his dad's coat tails as St. Louis native and Bravo TV star Andy Cohen is greeted by cheers and applause from a throng of fans as he walks out on to Delmar Boulevard for his induction ceremony onto the St. Louis Walk of Fame on Friday, May 5, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis native and Bravo TV star Andy Cohen thanks the crowd during a brief speech after his star on Delmar Boulevard was revealed during his induction ceremony onto the St. Louis Walk of Fame in St. Louis on Friday, May 5, 2023. Cohen, a 1986 graduate of Clayton High School, is best known as an Emmy Award-winning television producer and host and author. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Members of the Staunton Storm U9 baseball team Layne Goetten, left, and Max Wieseman fool around in the dugout as Wieseman gets ready to head out to on deck circle during a game at Plummer Family Park in Edwardsville on Saturday, May 6, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Willson Contreras watches the action on the field in the top of the ninth inning against the Detroit Tigers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Sunday, May 7, 2023.

Police hold back a grieving man trying to rush past police tape around the scene of homicide where a man was found with a gunshot wound to his head lying on the ground near a Dodge Charger in a parking lot near the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Gravois Avenue in St. Louis on Monday, May 8, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Haley Billings salvages a few personal items from her SUV on Monday, May 15, 2023 after it was swamped in floodwater in the parking lot at Cedar Creek Lodge Apartments on Sunday. Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms forced small streams to jump their banks and overwhelmed drainage on roads and highways. The St. Louis fire department responded to more than a dozen calls for help for cars stuck in floodwater. The apartment complex has flooded at least three times since 2017. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Workers attach bolts to poles that will hold nets around the Topgolf entertainment center that is being built at Chouteau and Compton avenues in St. Louis on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The second Topgolf location in the St. Louis region is expected to open later this year. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, back, hugs his wife Nicole Gore, front, after Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robin Ransom swears him into office on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at the Carnahan Courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Gore was appointed to the position by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson after Kim Gardner resigned from the position May 16. Christine Tannous, [email protected]

Jeanne Braddock, right, lays flowers on Tina Turner's star at the St. Louis Walk of Fame with her friend Mollie McGeehon, left, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in the Delmar Loop in St. Louis. Turner died Tuesday at 83 after a long illness. "She unites everyone," McGeehon said. "Everyone loves her."

Investigators carrying FBI equipment exit a house Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in the 1100 block of Patchwork Fields Drive in Chesterfield. A man who answered the door to the house said he is a relative to Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, who authorities say purposefully crashed a U-Haul into a security barrier across from the White House on Monday night, May 22, 2023.

St. Louis Chess Club manager Ryan Chester (left) plays a game with scholastic instructor Shinoy Mammen on May 22, 2023, the first day of single-ticket sales at the Muny. St. Louis Chess Club members were promoting the upcoming Muny production of "Chess."

Brett Stuart, 8, far left, and his sister Hadley Stuart, 10, far right, play in the driveway of their home with friends Ryan Thomson, 6, and Dylan Thomson, 9, on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in the Riverdale Manors neighborhood in St. Paul. Kindra Stuart, mother of Brett and Hadley Stuart, said the family moved to St. Paul from St. Peters five years ago because they wanted to build their own home. The population of St. Paul grew by nearly 18% from 2020 through 2022, making it among the fastest-growing cities in the St. Louis area.

Daniel Toberman, principal at Collinsville High School, flies in a U.S. Navy Blue Angels Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at Scott Air Force Base in St. Clair County. Toberman was chosen to fly as a local leader to promote the upcoming air show at the base this weekend.

Linsey Morgan folds laundry for a customer while her son Hudson Morgan, 1, watches from under her arm Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at her home in the Princeton Heights neighborhood in St. Louis. Linsey Morgan owns and operates her own laundry business, Linsey's Laundry. A stay-at-home mom, Linsey Morgan picks up laundry from clients, washes and folds it and delivers it back. Photo by Christine Tannous, [email protected]

Law enforcement officials work the scene of a three-vehicle crash Monday, May 8, 2023, at the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Page Boulevard in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in St. Louis. Police said a 2018 Chevy Impala (right) crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a 2011 GMC Sierra (left) which then hit a 2022 Tesla (far left). The Impala's driver was killed.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis, smiles during a press conference calling for U.S. Supreme Court reforms Monday, May 8, 2023, at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis. The press conference was held as a part of the "Just Majority" campaign, which calls for an expansion of the court as well as ethics reforms. Photo by Christine Tannous, [email protected]

Junior Brittney Fearnley, left, and sophomore Sara Perez, right, pet Betty, a 2-year old Dalmatian, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Recreation and Wellness Center on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A group of Purina employee-led Touch Therapy dogs visited UMSL to help students relieve some stress ahead of finals week. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Sophia, a 4-year-old golden doodle, sits and poses for a photo at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Recreation and Wellness Center on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A group of Purina employee-led Touch Therapy dogs visited UMSL to help students relieve some stress ahead of finals week. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Kate O'Sullivan, a sophomore at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, puts her head up to Betty, a 2-year-old Dalmatian, at the UMSL Recreation and Wellness Center on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A group of Purina employee-led Touch Therapy dogs visited UMSL to help students relieve some stress ahead of finals week. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Kama'ya Hill, a third grader at Patrick Henry Downtown Academy, points at a sunflower her class planted at the beginner of the school year during a celebration event on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in St. Louis. The St. Louis public school was awarded the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School award for its commitment to healthy schools, sustainability and environmentalism. Principal Deborah Rogers says Patrick Henry is the 19th school in Missouri and the first urban school to receive the award.

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 begins its base turn on its approach to land at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Monday, May 8, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Members of the Commemorative Air Force fly over explosions and through clouds of smoke during their "Tora! Tora! Tora!" show reenacting the attack on Pearl Harbor during an air show at Scott Air Force Base on Saturday, May 13, 2023.

An F-22 Raptor, left, and a P-51 Mustang fly together in formation during a Heritage Flight at an air show at Scott Air Force Base.

Nathanael Grosz, 2, from Columbia, holds a model Blue Angel airplane while watching an air show from on top of the shoulders of his father, Travis, at Scott Air Force Base.

St. Louis Cardinals' Juan Yepez celebrates after hitting a home run in the third inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals fans go wild as Brendan Donovan runs safely to home to score a run in the eighth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright's 4-year-old son, Caleb, pokes his head out from under the table his dad is sitting at during a press conference after a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

St. Louis City SC midfielder Célio Pompeu, right, screams as he is tackled by Sporting Kansas City defender Dany Romero, left, and midfielder Jake Davis during a game at CityPark stadium on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

City SC midfielder Indiana Vassilev, center, watches as his shot beats Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper for a goal in the second half of a match on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at CityPark.

Monica Butler, with the Missouri Gospel Hall of Fame, sings while driving in the 113th Annie Malone May Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Charlene Jefferson, 102nd Illustrious Commandress of Medinah Court #15, rides in the 113th Annual Annie Malone May Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Kimberlan Perkins, with the Riverview Gardens High School Marching Band, performs in the 113th Annie Malone May Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Shernise Watt, center, 6, blows on a kazoo while watching the 113th Annie Malone May Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Anthony Powell, right, gets ready to fish in the Mississippi River while his cousin, Kevin Patton, checks out another spot at North Riverfront Park in St. Louis on Monday, May 22, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

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A uniform representing U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Melvin Meyer, of Overland, is displayed in a casket during visitation for Meyer at Pitman Funeral Home in Wentzville on Thursday, May 25, 2023.

JoAnn Hogan, second from left, niece and oldest living relative to U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Melvin Meyer, holds the folded flag from Meyer's casket as he is carried to his final resting place at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on Friday, May 26, 2023. Meyer is a World War II veteran from Overland whose remains were identified from a plane crash site in Germany almost 79 years after the fact. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Jacob Preston, left, feeds a bite of frozen custard to his 6-year-old son, Donald, at Ted Drewes on South Grand Boulevard on Friday, May 26, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski speaks with reporters during a press conference Saturday, May 27, 2023, at the Cardinal Rigali Center in Shrewsbury. Rozanski discussed the details of the "All Things New" plan that lays out parish reorganization and priest reassignments in the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Thelisia Lewis, left, and Vern Stewart, both from St. Louis, laugh while coming down the boomerang slide at Wapelhorst Aquatic Facility in St. Charles on Monday, May 29, 2023.

Loris Horak, second from right, choir director at St. John the Baptist in St. Louis, shows 5-year-old William Dannan, right, and his 14-year-old brother, Drew, how to play the organ after 10 a.m. mass on Sunday, May 28, 2023.

The Rev. Aaron Nord begins 7:30 a.m. Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Louis on Sunday, May 28, 2023. It was announced Saturday night by the Archbishop of St. Louis, Mitchell Rozanski, that Nord will be reassigned as pastor of St. Stephen Protomartyr parish on Aug. 1, 2023, as part of the Archdiocese's "All Things New" plan.

St. Louis firefighter Andre Hopgood sits on a fire hose aimed at a three-alarm fire in an abandoned two story brick warehouse on North 7th Street and O'Fallon Street on Saturday, May 27, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

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