Off-Duty Police Officer Kills an 18 Year Old In St Louis

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Police department says suspect opened fire after being ordered to stop but other accounts say he only had a sandwich

 

A St Louis city policeman shot and killed a young male suspect on Wednesday, authorities said, bringing new tension as protests continue over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in August.

 

The officer had attempted to stop the fleeing suspect, the St Louis Metropolitan Police Department said on Twitter. During the chase on foot the suspect turned and fired at the officer, who returned fire and fatally wounded him, the force said.

 

The officer was not hurt and a gun was recovered from the scene, police said.

 

Some accounts of the case said the young man, named locally as Vonderrick Myers Jr, 18, had only been carrying a sandwich. Teyonna Myers, 23, of Florissant, said Myers was her cousin. “He was unarmed,” she told the St Louis Post-Dispatch. “He had a sandwich in his hand, and they thought it was a gun. It’s like Michael Brown all over again.”

 

Police spokeswoman Leah Freeman told CNN said the officer had been off-duty and working an approved second job when he attempted to stop Myers for a “pedestrian check”. He had been wearing his police uniform.

 

The Post-Dispatch reported that dozens of protesters assembled at the scene afterwards in south St Louis, within miles of the city of Ferguson, which has been racked by near-nightly protests following the fatal 9 August shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.

 

 

I swear it is becoming a weekly thing over there now

 

Crazy

[Sole]

black people need to leave that place asap.

[Simply D]

Wait so in this "approved second job" hes allowed to 1) wear official police uniform, n 2) able to stop random people on road for a "pedestrian check"??

Naaaaaaah dem guys cant catch a break atooor!!

[DRC]

Is it confirmed that he shot at the officer/was just a sandwich?

Difficult to pass judgement if not...

[SLEAZE BALL]

But was it a sandwich or a gun?

[SLEAZE BALL]

It also says a gun was recovered from the scene....