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12-25-14, 00:44
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/24/man-shot-killed-berkeley/20849045/
At about 11:15 p.m. CT Tuesday while conducting a routine business check, a police officer saw two males at the side of a gas station, Sgt. Brian Schellman, a St. Louis County police spokesman, said in a statement.
The officer, whose name has not been released, approached them. Then one of the men pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said.
"Fearing for his life, the Berkeley officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him," Schellman said. "The second subject fled the scene."
The 18-year-old suspect was armed with a loaded 9mm handgun, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. The police department in Berkeley, a city of about 9,000 where more than eight in 10 residents are black, asked the St. Louis County Police Department to handle the investigation.
Authorities later identified the suspect as Antonio Martin, 18, of St. Louis. He died at the scene, but Belmar did not say where the fatal shot hit him and autopsy results are not yet available. The 18-year-old who died had a criminal record, including arrests for armed robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. Belmar said many officers in the local police departments knew him.
And here is the punch line.
Hundreds gathered at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Berkeley, Missouri that left an armed 18-year-old dead. Police say officers at the scene were injured when explosives were set off near gas pumps and bricks were thrown.
At about 11:15 p.m. CT Tuesday while conducting a routine business check, a police officer saw two males at the side of a gas station, Sgt. Brian Schellman, a St. Louis County police spokesman, said in a statement.
The officer, whose name has not been released, approached them. Then one of the men pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said.
"Fearing for his life, the Berkeley officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him," Schellman said. "The second subject fled the scene."
The 18-year-old suspect was armed with a loaded 9mm handgun, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. The police department in Berkeley, a city of about 9,000 where more than eight in 10 residents are black, asked the St. Louis County Police Department to handle the investigation.
Authorities later identified the suspect as Antonio Martin, 18, of St. Louis. He died at the scene, but Belmar did not say where the fatal shot hit him and autopsy results are not yet available. The 18-year-old who died had a criminal record, including arrests for armed robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. Belmar said many officers in the local police departments knew him.
And here is the punch line.
Hundreds gathered at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Berkeley, Missouri that left an armed 18-year-old dead. Police say officers at the scene were injured when explosives were set off near gas pumps and bricks were thrown.