Man pulled gun before they shot him

Dotson said police would release video showing that officers gave multiple orders to clear the street and warnings that the tear gas would be used. The other officer then also fired two shots. “Both officers fired.” The dead male has been identified as Mansur Ball-Bey.

Many of those who gathered Wednesday afternoon voiced anger at police. At least nine people were arrested.

Police defended their actions saying they warned protesters their gathering had been deemed an unlawful assembly. “There were two officers in the alley”.

Police denied violating the agreement.

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says police moved in to clear protesters from Walton and Page avenues, near the site of a police shooting earlier Wednesday, only after crowds had lashed out against police. There was also a report that a back door had been kicked in.

This story was originally publishes at 12:38 p.m. He remained at large.

Police are looking for the second suspect, who they stated is believed to be in his mid- to late teenagers.

Some protesters questioned the police claim that the suspect was armed. One officer shot Ball-Bey three times, while the other shot him once.

“What I know right now is that somebody pointed a gun at police officers,” Dotson told the publication. An area minister, meanwhile, said the police had escalated the situation by being too aggressive: “There has to be a better way, but the better way is not to terrorize an already terrorized community”. They said drugs and stolen guns were found in the house. They encountered Ball-Bey and another suspect running from the home, police said.

The officers have been put on leave pending an internal investigation, which is standard procedure. Last month a 3-year-old boy shot himself in the head after finding a loaded gun inside a home nearby. The boy survived. Some chanted “Black Lives Matter”, the call of a movement that came to national prominence about a year ago after the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. “There are some folks who are angry… just looking for a battle”. He said the city needs to focus its efforts on rebuilding neighborhoods instead of a new stadium for the Rams.

“We need to actively de-escalate these situations”, French said. “Setting vacant buildings on fire doesn’t further the cause”. Several onlookers surrounded individual officers, yelling at them. Louis Post-Dispatch, “They always say that”. “There’s lots of poverty and everything”.

In a letter from attorneys Eric Bland and Robert Richter addressed to the US Justice Department, the lawyers assert that Morton “had additional criminal information regarding Adam Covington”, the son of Seneca police chief John Covington and a former reserve officer for the Seneca police.

“The sign says it all”, Robinson said.

Police said the shooting followed a plague of similar violence and crime in the neighborhood. “That’s why people are armed down here”.