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Police: boy, 14, critically wounded in shootout with St. Louis officers
stltoday.com ^ | Oct. 2, 2016

Posted on 10/02/2016 1:42:39 PM PDT by PROCON

ST. LOUIS • Police shot and wounded a 14-year-old boy who fired at officers first Sunday morning in the Walnut Park East neighborhood, Police Chief Sam Dotson said.

The shooting was reported about 9:25 a.m. in the 5000 block of Beacon Avenue; the department posted a tweet saying the wounded person was stable at a hospital.

No officers were injured in the shooting.

Dotson told reporters at the scene that officers had been searching for a car taken in a carjacking late last month. After a short pursuit, Dotson said, the officers stopped to try to talk to at least one teen walking on Lillian Avenue. The teen ran off, turned through a vacant lot near the Walbridge Elementary School and fired one shot before officers returned fire.

The two officers involved are white; the teen is black. The teen was in critical but stable condition at a hospital; he was conscious and able to speak. Dotson said witnesses told police they heard the pursuing officers identify themselves as police and order the teen to get down.

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To: PROCON
a 14-year-old boy who fired at officers first

When do the riots begin?

41 posted on 10/02/2016 3:02:47 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

The cop need more range time. That could have saved the taxpayers a lot of money.


42 posted on 10/02/2016 3:10:48 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Wrong question. Americans are guaranteed the right to bear arms per the Constitution. No age requirements that I’ve seen.

I have a problem with any 14 year old carrying a handgun just as I have a problem with any 14 year old driving a car or working on a production line in a manufacturing plant or drinking alcohol.............

And it ain't a "Constitutional" thing............

43 posted on 10/02/2016 3:14:25 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

St. Louis is a hellhole like Detroit, Philly, LA, and everywhere Demonicrats spawn. Sounds like Dotson is a Demonicrat stooge himself. Of course the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a leftist rag.


44 posted on 10/02/2016 3:21:42 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: PROCON

Where this happened, Walnut Park, is one the most violent neighborhoods in all of St. Louis. There are vacant houses with community guns everywhere.

Most of these guns are straw purchases or stolen out of people’s cars or houses.


45 posted on 10/02/2016 3:24:14 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: COBOL2Java

Perfect :)


46 posted on 10/02/2016 3:26:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Never Trump=Always hiLIARy)
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To: bgill

>>When do the riots begin?<<

I wager sundown.


47 posted on 10/02/2016 3:27:31 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Never Trump=Always hiLIARy)
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To: Sheapdog

Let it be so. Enough pretense. If a fight is coming, then let it be so and be done, once and for all.


48 posted on 10/02/2016 3:28:57 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: freedumb2003

It’s Walnut Park, there is nothing there to burn or loot.


49 posted on 10/02/2016 3:30:47 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: Molon Labbie

>>It’s Walnut Park, there is nothing there to burn or loot.<<

Wanna bet there is a flat screen in 1/2 of all living and bed rooms? EBT: The one card is all you need!


50 posted on 10/02/2016 3:32:25 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Never Trump=Always hiLIARy)
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To: Sheapdog

Maybe the movie will make them rise up against the Middle-Eastern and Asian countries that still have slavery this very day??

Okay, okay It was wishful commenting...


51 posted on 10/02/2016 3:35:33 PM PDT by SentForth5 (Just sayin' is all...)
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To: TigerClaws
He was a good kid. Never meant to hurt nobody. Changing his life around. Wanted to go to college.

Always helped his gramma carry the groceries and was thinking about going to barber school.

52 posted on 10/02/2016 3:38:30 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: PROCON

We need more “gun safety” laws to make sure 14 year old boys can’t just buy guns over the internet any more. Or something.


53 posted on 10/02/2016 3:43:52 PM PDT by Gritty (This election is our last chance... We won't get another opportunity. It will be too late.-DJTrump)
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To: freedumb2003

Yep, and they aren’t on because somebody ain’t pay the lightricity note...


54 posted on 10/02/2016 3:46:19 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: PROCON

“...a 14-year-old boy who fired at officers first Sunday morning...”

#BlackShotsMatter


55 posted on 10/02/2016 3:53:00 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: TigerClaws

He was planning to sell the cars he stole for his college fund - pretty entrepeneurial for a 14 year old kid. But The Man ruined everything.


56 posted on 10/02/2016 3:55:15 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: MichaelCorleone

You’ve got to be at least 18 to apply for a concealed carry permit in Missouri. One of the reasons for the law, like it or not, is that kids aren’t considered capable of carrying guns responsibly: QED, this. But it wouldn’t matter if he were 14, 24 or 44.


57 posted on 10/02/2016 4:03:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: PROCON

Play stupid games... win stupid prizes.


58 posted on 10/02/2016 4:08:39 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: PROCON
What's a 14 year old "boy" doing with a semi-automatic handgun in the first place?

What a silly question!
Given the opportunity, shooting cops, of course.

It's a BLM thing.

59 posted on 10/02/2016 4:10:40 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: freedumb2003
yeah, i think they call it MULTI PASS
60 posted on 10/02/2016 4:18:23 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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