23 arrested in Ferguson overnight

But on Monday night, no smoke or tear gas was used, and no police or civilians reported injuries, McGuire said in a statement.

Reaction from protesters was mixed.

Police say that the initial outburst of gunfire seemed to be between two groups, with as many as six people firing. “When they speak to you, they speak with aggression”, Maria Hamilton said.

“I think it’s unfortunate that a handsome day of events ended like that”, said Dellena Jones, whose hair salon was among the shops hit.

Ferguson resident Roberta Lynch, 51, one of the demonstrators on Monday evening, said relations between police and the community had improved little over the past year.

Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014.

“This is treatment we’ve been putting up with forever”, Myers said. “Not a lot has changed when it comes to that”, she said.

County officials declared a state of emergency Monday afternoon, but stopped short of declaring a curfew.

Sunday’s violence followed a day of peaceful protests and remembrance, in which hundreds of demonstrators observed a four-and-a-half-minute silence in memory of the slain teen. Officers returned fire, wounding the shooter. Police said the suspect shot into the windshield of the van. The video, according to police, “shows Harris grab a handgun out of his waistband once shots are fired during the protest”. Belmar told a news conference at 3:30 a.m. that one suspect who was shot by police is in “critical, unstable” condition in a local hospital and undergoing surgery.

Demonstrations around the region had long been planned to mark the anniversary.

Protests also spilled outside of Ferguson earlier Monday. Terri Dougherty, a U.S. attorney spokesperson, told USA Today protesters arrested outside the federal courthouse face charges of unreasonably obstructing the usual use of an entrance and will be fined $125.

The demonstration started when a large group of people gathered on West Florissant and police lined the street across from them. “What did I do?” as police took her away in handcuffs.

Many were uneasy with their presence. Perhaps 200 officers – mostly from St. Louis County and the Missouri State Highway Patrol – lined one side of West Florissant, allowing protesters to mingle on the other side, except when skirmishes arose. Stenger expressed a similar view. The group says its core membership is made up of veterans and active-duty members of the military and first responders, such as police and firefighters.

Information for this article was contributed by John Eligon and Mitch Smith of The New York Times; by Jim Salter, Alan Scher Zagier, Jim Suhr, Jeff Roberson and Eric Tucker of The Associated Press; and by Steve Giegerich, Lisa Brown, Kevin McDermott, Robert Patrick, Nicholas J.C. Pistor and Joe Holleman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

As further unrest marked the anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown, some in the crowd, not far from the spot where he was shot, felt the awareness stemming from that incident has empowered them.