ST. LOUIS – A Tennessee man in town for a party at Ballpark Village is accused of driving drunk and striking a pedestrian on Monday.

According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, officers were called to South Fourth and Gratiot streets for a hit-and-run crash.

When officers arrived, they found the victim in the middle of the street, suffering from what police described as gruesome injuries. Witnesses reported hearing the victim screaming from beneath the vehicle that hit him.

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Police learned the victim was walking northbound on South Fourth Street and crossing Chouteau Avenue when he was struck by a Ford Edge traveling westbound on Chouteau. The victim was knocked into the air and

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