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Police: Officer kills man in St. Louis suburb after he pulls gun | Police: Officer kills man in St. Louis suburb after he pulls gun |
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St. Louis County police said an officer shot and killed a man who pulled a gun on him late Tuesday at a gas station in the St. Louis community of Berkeley. | |
The shooting, by a Berkeley police officer, occurred about 11:15 p.m. local time. By 1 a.m., the victim’s body remained in the parking lot where some 60 people had gathered, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. | |
The crowd included ministers and others who have been protesting the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., some two miles from the scene of Tuesday night’s shooting. | |
The Post-Dispatch and others named a victim based on reports from a woman at the scene who said the man was her son, though police did not confirm it. Police did not immediately identify the race of the victim or the officer. | |
Police said in a statement the officer was conducting a “routine business check” at a Mobil Gas Station on North Hanley Road near I-170 when he saw two male subjects outside the building. | |
“The Berkeley Police Officer exited his vehicle and approached the subjects when one of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer,” the statement said. “Fearing for his life, the Berkeley Officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him.” | |
The other subject fled the scene. |