Crooks steal from 5-year-old with brain cancer

ST. LOUIS — Police are searching for the thieves who stole gifts for a 5-year-old with brain cancer.

They're accused of breaking down an apartment door Wednesday. They went past the mountain of Christmas presents on the living room floor and headed for Kamareon Smith's room where two donated televisions, a Play Station 4 and some new games were taken.

Kamareon was diagnosed with a brain tumor 8 months ago, and mom Quinetta Smith is a single parent trying to make ends meet between chemotherapy treatments every Thursday and giving her sons a good Christmas.

"Came back to my house (with) the door being kicked in open and the stuff being gone," she said. "I'm struggling with taking care of my sick child that's fighting for his life."

A hospital charity that has been helping the family gave many of the gifts to Kamareon in advance of Christmas.

"They adopted him and brought him multiple gifts and things for him to have a good Christmas," Quinetta Smith said. "And the one thing that he likes to do — watch TV — his TV is gone.

"He's a normal kid but at the same time I have to be careful with him just because he has a brain tumor," she said.

She's worried that her home and what the thieves didn't take are vulnerable.

The investigation is ongoing, St. Louis Police said.

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