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A St. Louis County police officer who is the son of a former top St. Louis County official is facing 11 felony charges after police say that he fired shots Sunday at a Halloween event for elementary school students in Kirkwood.
Matthew McCulloch, 39, is charged with five counts of armed criminal action, four counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count each of unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree terrorist threat.
McCulloch has been a St. Louis County police officer since 2017 and is also the son of former St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert "Bob" McCulloch. He is also the nephew of St. Charles County Prosecutor Joe McCulloch.
St. Louis County police Chief Kenneth Gregory released a statement Mondaynearly 24 hours after McCulloch's arreststating that the officer had been suspended without pay pending an internal investigation. He was off-duty at the time of the incident.
Court documents summarize the incident as follows:
At around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, McCulloch began harassing people during a trunk-or-treat event for Tillman Elementary students on the North Kirkwood Middle School campus. Hundreds of parents and children were there.
McCulloch "aggressively approached" several attendees and made statements such as "You are all going to die," according to the documents. At one point, he threatened a woman whose husband then pushed him in the chest and shoved him to the ground.
McCulloch fell "while surrounded by hundreds of children, stood up, pulled up his shirt to display a handgun and badge, then began firing his weapon in an upward direction approximately a dozen times while shouting that the attendees would die," according to court documents.
Kirkwood police confirmed McCulloch was there with his family.
Corey Schonhorst was there with his 8-year-old son.
The main crowd had just started to kind of wander in, Schonhorst recalled.
Schonhorst said McCulloch stood in the middle of the crowd in the parking lot.
He held his gun with a menacing grin on his face and a lifeless look in his eyes and fired five shots and waited for the crowd to react. It was complete chaos. One kid had completely run out of his shoes, Schonhorst said.
Schonhorst said it all happened within 45 seconds.
At the time it seemed like eight, nine minutes," he said. "I mean, it was like time stopped. The scariest thing I can really remember is after those parents tackled him to the ground, he was still smiling."
The parents who tackled him took his gun, Schonhorst said.
The fact that hes a police officer really is a pretty scary thought because who do we turn to now to protect our children?" Schonhorst said.
Schonhorst said he can't forget how McCulloch kept smiling through it all.
Even though nobody was hurt, theres going to be an air of trauma that may not come out in some of these kids for years to come, Schonhorst added.

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