Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. “She looked down, had a gun and screamed for the person to stay off her property,” Watkins said. Mark McCloskey said in the affidavit that he and his wife purchased the home in 1988 and have taken several measures to improve the disputed piece of land. One of the houses on Portland Place is a spectacular, $1.15m (£880,730) Renaissance-style palazzo, built by an Anheuser-Busch beer fortune heiress in the early 1900s. The affidavit states they have “regularly prohibited all persons, including Portland Place residents, from crossing the Parcel including at least at one point, challenging a resident at gunpoint who refused to heed the McCloskeys’ warnings to stay off such property.”. Police said the McCloskeys heard a loud commotion in the street and saw a large group of people break an iron gate marked with “No Trespassing” and “Private Street” signs. 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The McCloskeys -- he’s 63 and she’s 61 -- are both personal injury lawyers and their home is on a private street called Portland Place in St. Louis’ well-to-do Central West End. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. Watkins said in an interview that the McCloskeys have “touched their weapons” just twice in their 32 years on Portland Place — during the incident in 1988 or 1989 cited in the affidavit, and on Sunday. It turned out to be a neighbor cutting through on the way home from a nearby business district. ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis couple who became internationally famous for standing guard with guns outside their mansion during a protest have pulled a gun before in defense of their property, according to an affidavit in an ongoing case. Details about the legal case were first reported Thursday by St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The McCloskeys -- he’s 63 and she’s 61 -- are both personal injury lawyers and their home is on a private street called Portland Place in St. Louis’ well-to-do Central West End. The McCloskeys claim they own it, but the trustees say it belongs to the neighborhood. As demonstrators marched near the Renaissance palazzo-style home of Mark and Patricia McCloskey on Sunday, video posted online showed him wielding a long-barreled gun and her with a small handgun. No shots were fired. Watkins said the neighbor was then, and is now, a friend of the couple. Take the cops with you!”. Portland Place is in St. Louis' Central West End neighborhood, which Zillow classifies as a "very hot" sellers' market. The group of at least 500 people chanted, “Resign, Lyda! Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner said her office was working with police to investigate, saying she was alarmed because “peaceful protesters were met by guns and a violent assault.”. He said they grabbed their guns when two or three protesters — who were white — violently threatened the couple, and their property and that of their neighbors. A judge on Monday ruled against motions from both sides to end the case without a trial. 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The demonstrators on Sunday were angry at Mayor Lyda Krewson for reading aloud the names and addresses of several residents who wrote letters calling for defunding the police department. Updated at 5 p.m. with comments from the McCloskeys’ attorney

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