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Information for this article was contributed by staff members of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and by Jim Suhr and Jim Salter of The Associated Press.

Immediately after the incident, crowds gathered at a nearby intersection and then again in the evening, and according to Dotson some protesters attacked police officers with bricks and bottles.

Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was was shot and killed by St. Louis police officers Wednesday, reportedly died from a single gunshot wound to the back, according to an autopsy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

His death sparked protests and reignited a national conversation around race and policing.

Police had to fire tear gas to clear the intersection.

PROTEST OBSERVERS CLAIM POLICE REACTION TOO AGGRESSIVE: 10:35 p.m. A vehicle and a vacant house were set ablaze.

The fatal police shooting of a Black teenager in St. Louis Wednesday sparked more protests in a city already plagued with racial tension due last year’s killing of Michael Brown, Jr. The gun Ball-Bey pointed at officers was one of several stolen firearms recovered at the...