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| Crowds in streets of St. Louis after fatal shooting of 18-year-old by off-duty police officer | Crowds in streets of St. Louis after fatal shooting of 18-year-old by off-duty police officer |
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| Updated: 5 a.m. | Updated: 5 a.m. |
| Protesters took to the streets of south St. Louis last night and early this morning following the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old African-American man by an off-duty police officer. In an early morning briefing, Police Chief Sam Dotson said the man fired three shots at the officer first. The officer returned fire 17 times. | Protesters took to the streets of south St. Louis last night and early this morning following the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old African-American man by an off-duty police officer. In an early morning briefing, Police Chief Sam Dotson said the man fired three shots at the officer first. The officer returned fire 17 times. |
| Details remained sketchy. According to police, the officer was working for a private security company at the time patrolling a specific neighborhood, but was in a St. Louis police uniform when he encountered three men he thought were acting suspiciously. When they saw the officer make a U-turn, they fled. | Details remained sketchy. According to police, the officer was working for a private security company at the time patrolling a specific neighborhood, but was in a St. Louis police uniform when he encountered three men he thought were acting suspiciously. When they saw the officer make a U-turn, they fled. |
| He drove through the streets after them and then left his car and chased them on foot. One of the men then turned on the officer and got into a physical struggle, Dotson said. | |
| Dotson said the victim then ran up a hill and fired three times at the officer, before the officer returned fire. Investigators recovered a 9mm Ruger at the scene, which Dotson said was used by the 18-year-old. | Dotson said the victim then ran up a hill and fired three times at the officer, before the officer returned fire. Investigators recovered a 9mm Ruger at the scene, which Dotson said was used by the 18-year-old. |
| Relatives quoted by local news organizations said the man had only a sandwich, not a weapon. | Relatives quoted by local news organizations said the man had only a sandwich, not a weapon. |
| While crowds gathered in the streets jeering at police and blocking traffic on Grand Boulevard, according to television footage, there were no immediate reports of any violence. | While crowds gathered in the streets jeering at police and blocking traffic on Grand Boulevard, according to television footage, there were no immediate reports of any violence. |
| “I pray this is not another Mike Brown situation,” Sharon Norman, 50, told the paper, referring to the incident on Aug. 9 in the nearby community of Ferguson in which a police officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, setting off protests and rioting. The Ferguson shooting is still be investigated. | “I pray this is not another Mike Brown situation,” Sharon Norman, 50, told the paper, referring to the incident on Aug. 9 in the nearby community of Ferguson in which a police officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, setting off protests and rioting. The Ferguson shooting is still be investigated. |