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A crowd gathers near Riverview Boulevard and McLaran Avenue where a St. Louis police officer shot and killed a suspect on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Photo by Lisa Brown
Police officers in St Louis have shot and killed a 23-year-old African-American man who they say was wielding a knife and refused to drop it.
The incident happened not far from Ferguson, which has seen days of protests over the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown ten days ago by a police officer.
Police Chief Sam Dotson says the man was acting erratically and told responding officers to “shoot me now, kill me now.”
He says officers opened fire when the man began approaching them with the knife. KMOV reportsa large crowd gathered at the scene. No officers were injured in today’s incident.
