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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When do the riots begin?
The cop need more range time. That could have saved the taxpayers a lot of money.
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............
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.
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.
Perfect :)
>>When do the riots begin?<<
I wager sundown.
Let it be so. Enough pretense. If a fight is coming, then let it be so and be done, once and for all.
It’s Walnut Park, there is nothing there to burn or loot.
>>Its 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!
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...
Always helped his gramma carry the groceries and was thinking about going to barber school.
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.
Yep, and they aren’t on because somebody ain’t pay the lightricity note...
“...a 14-year-old boy who fired at officers first Sunday morning...”
#BlackShotsMatter
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.
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.
Play stupid games... win stupid prizes.
What a silly question!
Given the opportunity, shooting cops, of course.
It's a BLM thing.
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