Police said Wednesday they shot dead an
African American teenager in a town near
Ferguson, Missouri, where the police
shooting of an unarmed black teen led to
weeks of protests across the United States.
Media reports cited a St. Louis County
police statement saying that the shooting
took place at a gas station at 11:15 pm
Tuesday in the town of Berkeley.
Police said an officer opened fire on the
teen who was carrying a handgun, hitting
him several times and killing him.
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And then chaos resumes!

It is glaring death has renewed resident permit on earth to destroy,cause pain and send panic worldwide compared to yesteryears.Years back,Mr.Death seems relaxed and not too keen to take lives but now he is just reckless at what he does.Killings seem normal and I don't think there is going to be ending to this any time soon.

The world simply needs help.

Wn is dis madness gonna stop

OBAMA has sold us out!!!!! Smh

from the story it says d boy was wielding a hand gun... maybe d police man might have told him to drop d gun but d boy either resisted or opened fire... which may have led to him being shot... anyway sorry for d loss.

The blood they are sharing........chai! diarisGoduooooo

The guy pulled a gun against the police, what else were you expecting the cops to do?

A U.S. police officer shot and killed a black man after he pointed a loaded pistol at him in a St. Louis suburb near where an unarmed black teen was killed by a white officer in August, police said on Wednesday.

The shooting took place late on Tuesday at a Mobil On The Run gasoline station in Berkeley, Missouri, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told a news conference.

He called the shooting a tragedy both for the young man's family and for the officer.

"There are no winners here. There are nothing but losers," Belmar said.

A crowd of 200 to 300 people gathered at the station after the shooting, and bricks and three fireworks were thrown, two of them at the roughly 50 officers at the scene, he said.

Two officers were injured. Four people were arrested and charged with assault, said Belmar. Police released security camera video of the incident.

The shooting occurred after the officer, a six-year veteran of the Berkeley Police Department who was responding to a report of a larceny, got out of his car to talk to two men at the gas station.

One of them pointed a loaded 9mm handgun at the officer across the hood of the police car, Belmar said.

Pulling his own weapon, the officer stepped backward, stumbled, and fired three shots. One of them struck the man with the gun, a second hit a police car tire, and the third cannot be accounted for, he said.

Paramedics declared the man dead at the scene.

SECOND MAN SOUGHT

Authorities did not identify the dead man, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch named him as Antonio Martin, 18. The newspaper quoted his mother as saying he was with his girlfriend around the time of the shooting.

Belmar did not name the officer, who has been put on administrative leave. Police are seeking the second man involved in the incident.

The officer had been given a body camera but was not wearing it at the time of the shooting. His car's dashboard camera also was not activated when the incident took place, Belmar said.

A St. Louis County prosecutor has been assigned to the case and police have questioned two witnesses, he said.

Berkeley neighbors the suburb of Ferguson, where police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9, a killing that fueled criticism of the way police and the criminal justice system treat minority groups.

Protests in Ferguson have taken place for months and spilled over into violence when a grand jury decided not to charge Wilson a month ago.

Demonstrations in cities across the country gained in momentum when a New York grand jury decided not to charge police over the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man whom police tackled and put in a choke hold.

Before the incident in Berkeley, about 200 people marched in New York on Tuesday, defying Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for protests to be suspended after two police officers were killed in their patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday in an apparent revenge attack.

In Los Angeles, police said they would investigate whether any officers were involved in the singing of a song, at a party organized by a retired policeman, that poked fun at the Ferguson killing.

The lyrics of the song, on a video posted on entertainment news website TMZ, said: "Michael Brown learned a lesson about a messin' with a badass policeman."






Parents of Antonio Martin say his fatal shooting 'doesn't make any sense'

Antonio Martin's extended family was in shock early Wednesday, as they waited for details to unfold about the fatal shooting of the 18-year-old at a Berkeley gas station.

"This doesn't make any sense for them to kill my son like this," Toni Martin-Green said early Wednesday from her home located near the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. "I am trying to be calm."

She said initial video provided by police didn't offer enough information to answer her questions.

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According to St. Louis County police, a Berkeley police officer fired at least three shots at a man who pulled a gun on him Tuesday at 11:15 p.m. at a Mobil gas station at 6800 block of North Hanley.

Police have not identified the man, but Martin-Green said it was her son, Antonio – the oldest of four children born to she and Jerome Green.

"He's like any other kid who had dreams or hopes," said Green. "We loved being around him. He'd push a smile out of you."

Green described his son as a "follower" who took medication for being hyperactive.

"It was hard for him to focus," Green said.

Martin mainly grew up in the Hyde Park area of North St. Louis before moving with family to unincorporated St. Louis County a few years ago. Martin attended high school in Jennings before dropping out and had also been enrolled in the federal Job Corps program for a spell. He last worked at White Castle and wanted to go back to Job Corps, his father said.

Police say the man shot had a criminal record, with charges including three assaults, armed robbery, armed criminal action and multiple uses of weapons since he was 17.

Martin's parents acknowledged that their son has been arrested before and had "stumbled in the past."

"In the last year, he was really trying to find who he was. He was ready to take the world on," the father said. "He knew he had parents who loved him. He had that support."

"He was not a violent person, to our knowledge," he added. "Around us there weren't any pistols. It's hard to believe that."

His grandmother, Margret Chandler, was also in disbelief.

"When he was around me, he knew to do right," she said. "Why would he pull out a gun against the police? That's the thing I don't get. It just doesn't add up."

I thought police over there are taught to shoot to disarm 1st? The worst is that they shoot the people continuously cos at the end, more than 10 bullets will be found on the victim.

Chai,

Boko haram again ?

Jonathan should just win this 2015 and sack this policeman.

Smh this got to stop.

100Cents:
Jonathan should just win this 2015 and sack this policeman.

See wetin paraga dey cause lol