Washington: A black man had been shot dead by US Police at a gas station in a St. Louis suburb late on Tuesday. It is the same place where an unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August.
A live video feed showed the gas station cordoned off by yellow tape and lined by police officers, with bystanders shouting at them in a tense standoff.
A newspaper had reported that some 60 people had gathered at the crime scene and that at least three people were arrested.
Images and video footage showed what appeared to be smoke and loud bangs, although it was not clear whether it was the bystanders or the police that had caused them.
Police had claimed that the 18-year-old man had pointed a handgun at an officer who approached him and another man at a gas station in the suburb of Berkeley.
Spokesperson of St. Louis County Police Department Brian Schellman in a statement said, “Fearing for his life, the Berkeley Officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him.”
He claimed that second man fled the scene.
Bureau Report
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