{"id":690538,"date":"2026-05-05T01:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:03:21","slug":"man-stabbed-to-death-at-busch-stadium-hours-after-cardinals-loss-to-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690538\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed to death at Busch Stadium hours after Cardinals’ loss to Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was stabbed to death early on Monday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis<\/a> after an alleged dispute between members of a cleaning crew at the Cardinals<\/a>\u2019 ballpark.<\/p>\n

Police were called to a block outside of the stadium just before 3 a.m. on Monday and found the victim, a 27-year-old man, according to KSDK<\/a> in St. Louis. Specifics of the incident are not yet known, but police took a 65-year-old man into custody.\u00a0An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Both police and the team said the two people involved were third-party contractors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of an isolated altercation that occurred between two on-site contracted individuals during the overnight hours on Monday morning,\u201d the Cardinals said in a statement. \u201cSt. Louis metropolitan police were dispatched to investigate and our security team is cooperating with the department in its investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety and security of our fans, guests and employees remains our highest priority and we are confident our stadium security measures were in no way compromised last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident took place hours after the Cardinals fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1<\/a> at Busch Stadium. That wrapped up a three-game series with the Dodgers. The Cardinals\u2019 game against the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> on Monday night at Busch Stadium started as scheduled, too.<\/p>\n

“Let me be very clear, this could have happened anywhere,” police spokesperson Mitch McCoy said on Monday, via KSDK. “This could have happened anywhere, but what happened tonight was a dispute between two people. Unfortunately, it happened at a treasured St. Louis staple.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was stabbed to death early on Monday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis after an alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,18205,160,37809,39,1628,19212,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,59,4,673,4391],"class_list":["post-690538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-busch-stadium","tag-cardinals","tag-daniel-shirey","tag-dodgers","tag-getty-images","tag-ksdk","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-st-louis","tag-the-cardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116519279253194305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}