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Update:1
The young man who was shot is Vonderrit Myers, Jr..
Also, this account of a "pedestrian check" in 2013:The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has charged 30-year-old Lamont Dukes with resisting arrest after the man allegedly fled from a cop during a "pedestrian check" over the weekend. Our original coverage of the incident is below.
A police officer who thought the suspect might have a gun on him shot and wounded Dukes on Sunday, officials say, sending him to the hospital with wounds in his buttocks and leg.
Dukes, it turns out, was unarmed.
But the officer discharged his firearm "fearing for his safety," police say.
The male cop, 33, is now on administrative leave as is standard procedure with an officer-involved shooting.
Dukes, a resident of the 4300 block of St. Louis Avenue, is meanwhile recovering in the hospital. A judge has issued a $500 cash-only bond.Pretty low bar to cross to fire a gun at someone, I'd say.
Update 2: The St. Louis PD just held a press briefing where they clarified Mr. Myers' name. They also confirmed that 17 shots were fired by the cop and said that Myers was pursued by the cop because he was "running like he had a gun."
They also began the inevitable process of victim-shaming, by informing the press that Mr. Myers was no angel, and was known to law enforcement authorities.There is a police report from June of this year where Myers was arrested forallegedly resisting arrest and an improper use of a weapon.
Note that these appear to be charges, not convictions. He should be, therefore, presumed innocent.
Beyond that, they tossed a lot of confusion into the mix that is quite difficult to sort out. Until I can get it all straight, I'm going to wait to add it to this post.
Update 3: Here's an updated report from Buzzfeed on the press conference:
The incident that led to the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. CT when an off-duty officer noticed three men near the corner of Shaw Blvd. and Klemm St. in St. Louis. Police Chief Sam Dotson said during a news conference that the men began running when they saw the officer, who responded by chasing one of them.
The officer was working as a security guard at the time, but wearing his St. Louis police uniform, Dotson said.
The officer initially lost the man but found him again when he jumped out of a bush. Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins told the Associated Press a struggle then ensued.
“The officer approached, they got into a struggle, they ended up into a gangway, at which time the young man pulled a weapon and shots were fired,” Adkins said. “The officer returned fire and unfortunately the young man was killed.”
According to Dotson, the man fired at least three times. His gun then jammed, though he continued pulling the trigger. The officer fired 17 times. By early Thursday morning, investigators had recovered bullet casings from two guns, Dotson said, as well as a 9 mm Rugerbelieved to have belonged to the man.
“The ballistic evidence indicates at least three different rounds at the office,” Dotson added
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Damn, appArebtky they had a press release confirming it. Wonder what the police are trying to hide
right before the fergusonoctober kicks off
St. Louis police encrypting radio to foil listeners
By Robert Patrick rpatrick@post-dispatch.com 314-621-5154
Oct 10, 2014 04:45 PM
ST. LOUIS • The St. Louis police began encrypting their two-way radio communications Friday morning after protesters listened in and reacted to such messages the night before, Chief Sam Dotson said.
Using easily-downloaded smartphone apps and social media, listeners notified protesters about officers’ movements and local residents who had called police, Dotson said. They also warned those being sought by police to change their appearance, he said, citing specific Tweets in an interview with the Post-Dispatch Friday afternoon.
“It made it difficult for us to control the situation,” Dotson said, and became a community safety issue.
“We encrypted our radios this morning at 7 a.m.” in response, he said.
How as the mood/presence out there today breh? I know it rained.
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it was still jam packed. damn near everybody had umbrellas, some didn't. marching in the rain in Clayton. the mood is tense as ever, this #shawshooting came out of nowhere. just added fuel to the fire. these next few weeks gonna be something else bruh
oh shyt, so dead prez is not just going to be in ferguson but they are performing 
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...forming-at-ferguson-hip-hop-4-justice-concert
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...forming-at-ferguson-hip-hop-4-justice-concert
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oh shyt, so dead prez is not just going to be in ferguson but they are performing
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3 1/2 months before shooting, St. Louis police chased Vonderrit Myers and friends
By Jennifer S. Mann jmann@post-dispatch.com > 314-621-5804 and Jeremy Kohler jkohler@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8337
Oct 11, 2014 12:00 AM
ST. LOUIS • About 3 ½ months before Vonderrit D. Myers was shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer in the Shaw neighborhood, he was riding with four friends in a gold Buick Regal that police pursued with a helicopter across the city after officers tried to pull it over for loud music and the driver sped off.
The car traveled erratically through a downtown entertainment district. Then a helicopter was called in to monitor the Buick’s movements. Another officer laid out spike strips to stop the car. The incident ended in a crash — and with Myers and at least three of the four other men charged with crimes.
The father of one of the men in the car that night said Friday that his son and one other arrested after that June 27 incident were together Wednesday night when Myers was chased and shot to death by an off-duty St. Louis police officer.
The friend’s father, Ronnie Sparks, said it was not a shock that the men were stopped for loud music.
“If I walk to the corner to go to the store, I’m liable to get searched,” he said. “The whole system is unfair.”
The driver of the car, Jose Ramos, 22, and Sparks’ son, Cameron Ming, declined to comment. A third man in the Buick, Dominique D. Smith, 21, is being held at a St. Louis city jail. St. Louis corrections officials would not allow a reporter to interview him Friday.
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said he had an agreement with Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce not to comment about pending criminal cases. He said the department does not allow officers to pursue fleeing vehicles where a suspect is wanted for a property crime; using a helicopter to follow from above would not necessarily be considered a pursuit.
Dotson said it wasn’t as unreasonable as some suggest for police officers to pull over a car blasting music and to try to arrest a dangerous driver fleeing police.
“I know the narrative is, ‘Why are you profiling and harassing these guys?’” he said. But there is also an epidemic of gun crimes in the city, and “the community expects us to keep them safe.”
“This is not an easy place to be,” he said.
According to a police report obtained by the Post-Dispatch, the incident started about midnight on June 27. Five young black men were cruising in the Buick north of downtown. Music blared.
The men were driving west on Carr Avenue near North Second Street when they passed two St. Louis Police detectives with the Anti-Crime Task Force riding in a police vehicle, wearing protective vests with the word POLICE emblazoned on front and back.
The police officers could still hear the music 100 feet down the road. They decided it was a violation of the city’s excessive noise ordinance. They made a U-turn, put on their lights and tried to pull the car over.
Ramos slowed near the Edward Jones Dome, as if he were going to stop, according to the report. The officers saw a passenger in the back seat turn his head and look at them. Then the Buick sped off down Washington Avenue.
Police said Ramos drove into oncoming traffic, swerving and causing pedestrians to jump out of the way. Police headed the Buick off on South Grand, near the exit ramp of eastbound Forest Park Parkway. Spike strips were deployed. The Buick continued going as one of its tires deflated, nearly struck an ambulance, drove over a median and continued across a lawn.
The police report says the man in the back, later identified as Smith, could be seen dropping what looked like a gun from a window, shortly before the car finally stopped for good around 1100 South Grand Boulevard. Officers later recovered a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun.
The five in the Buick all scattered on foot, according to the police report. Police say Myers was seen pulling a handgun from his front and throwing it in a sewage drain. Police caught him nearby and recovered the gun, a loaded .380-caliber pistol. He told the officers he was running because he had three city bench warrants, police would learn.
Police said Ramos also had three bench warrants from the city.
The five were booked on an array of resisting and gun charges.
At least two of the three who were facing felonies — Myers and Ramos — were released on pretrial probation with electronic monitoring after spending several days in jail.
It was those two, plus Ming, who went to Shaw Market around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, where Myers ordered his last sandwich — a turkey hoagie with pepper jack cheese and red onions — about 10 minutes before witnesses heard gunfire.
Sparks said his son and Ramos were arrested after Myers was killed Wednesday night but were released hours later without charges.
Police said the young men had turned and run when they saw the private security car make a U-turn. Sparks said he did not blame his son and other youths for running the other direction when police approached.
Police said Myers fired three shots at the officer and was killed when the officer returned fire.
Sparks said his family had lived in the neighborhood for 30 years.
“You can’t find anyone who would say anything bad about them,” he said about his son and Myers. He emphasized they were normal kids from stable families.
Stephen Ryals, a civil rights lawyer in Chesterfield, said the courts have generally sided with police when it comes to the balance between an officer’s safety and a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and against unlawful search and seizure.
To stop a pedestrian, an officer needs only an “articulable, reasonable suspicion” that a crime is being committed. There’s a higher standard of probable cause for vehicle stops.
Myers’ attorney, Peter Cohen, said he hears from clients who say they’ve been victims of racial profiling, getting singled out if they are in certain white-majority neighborhoods. Sometimes they are stopped for ordinance violations.
“They are going to feel it’s excessive, and the police are going to think it’s aggressive police work,” Cohen said. “Sometimes it can jump over the line.”
Richard Fredman, attorney for Ramos, declined to comment on the specifics of his client’s case.
Speaking generally, he remarked that the tension taking over the city right now “just didn’t start in St. Louis this last week.
“We are now in a situation that is about to explode, and it’s not like it couldn’t be seen coming,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for over 40 years and police community relations really haven’t gotten any better. Yes, crime is a huge problem but we’re not making a whole lot of progress. I think we have a really good police force, but like everything else, when everybody thinks they’re on the side of right, they think they can do whatever.”
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By Jennifer S. Mann jmann@post-dispatch.com > 314-621-5804 and Jeremy Kohler jkohler@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8337
Oct 11, 2014 12:00 AM
ST. LOUIS • About 3 ½ months before Vonderrit D. Myers was shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer in the Shaw neighborhood, he was riding with four friends in a gold Buick Regal that police pursued with a helicopter across the city after officers tried to pull it over for loud music and the driver sped off.
The car traveled erratically through a downtown entertainment district. Then a helicopter was called in to monitor the Buick’s movements. Another officer laid out spike strips to stop the car. The incident ended in a crash — and with Myers and at least three of the four other men charged with crimes.
The father of one of the men in the car that night said Friday that his son and one other arrested after that June 27 incident were together Wednesday night when Myers was chased and shot to death by an off-duty St. Louis police officer.
The friend’s father, Ronnie Sparks, said it was not a shock that the men were stopped for loud music.
“If I walk to the corner to go to the store, I’m liable to get searched,” he said. “The whole system is unfair.”
The driver of the car, Jose Ramos, 22, and Sparks’ son, Cameron Ming, declined to comment. A third man in the Buick, Dominique D. Smith, 21, is being held at a St. Louis city jail. St. Louis corrections officials would not allow a reporter to interview him Friday.
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said he had an agreement with Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce not to comment about pending criminal cases. He said the department does not allow officers to pursue fleeing vehicles where a suspect is wanted for a property crime; using a helicopter to follow from above would not necessarily be considered a pursuit.
Dotson said it wasn’t as unreasonable as some suggest for police officers to pull over a car blasting music and to try to arrest a dangerous driver fleeing police.
“I know the narrative is, ‘Why are you profiling and harassing these guys?’” he said. But there is also an epidemic of gun crimes in the city, and “the community expects us to keep them safe.”
“This is not an easy place to be,” he said.
According to a police report obtained by the Post-Dispatch, the incident started about midnight on June 27. Five young black men were cruising in the Buick north of downtown. Music blared.
The men were driving west on Carr Avenue near North Second Street when they passed two St. Louis Police detectives with the Anti-Crime Task Force riding in a police vehicle, wearing protective vests with the word POLICE emblazoned on front and back.
The police officers could still hear the music 100 feet down the road. They decided it was a violation of the city’s excessive noise ordinance. They made a U-turn, put on their lights and tried to pull the car over.
Ramos slowed near the Edward Jones Dome, as if he were going to stop, according to the report. The officers saw a passenger in the back seat turn his head and look at them. Then the Buick sped off down Washington Avenue.
Police said Ramos drove into oncoming traffic, swerving and causing pedestrians to jump out of the way. Police headed the Buick off on South Grand, near the exit ramp of eastbound Forest Park Parkway. Spike strips were deployed. The Buick continued going as one of its tires deflated, nearly struck an ambulance, drove over a median and continued across a lawn.
The police report says the man in the back, later identified as Smith, could be seen dropping what looked like a gun from a window, shortly before the car finally stopped for good around 1100 South Grand Boulevard. Officers later recovered a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun.
The five in the Buick all scattered on foot, according to the police report. Police say Myers was seen pulling a handgun from his front and throwing it in a sewage drain. Police caught him nearby and recovered the gun, a loaded .380-caliber pistol. He told the officers he was running because he had three city bench warrants, police would learn.
Police said Ramos also had three bench warrants from the city.
The five were booked on an array of resisting and gun charges.
At least two of the three who were facing felonies — Myers and Ramos — were released on pretrial probation with electronic monitoring after spending several days in jail.
It was those two, plus Ming, who went to Shaw Market around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, where Myers ordered his last sandwich — a turkey hoagie with pepper jack cheese and red onions — about 10 minutes before witnesses heard gunfire.
Sparks said his son and Ramos were arrested after Myers was killed Wednesday night but were released hours later without charges.
Police said the young men had turned and run when they saw the private security car make a U-turn. Sparks said he did not blame his son and other youths for running the other direction when police approached.
Police said Myers fired three shots at the officer and was killed when the officer returned fire.
Sparks said his family had lived in the neighborhood for 30 years.
“You can’t find anyone who would say anything bad about them,” he said about his son and Myers. He emphasized they were normal kids from stable families.
Stephen Ryals, a civil rights lawyer in Chesterfield, said the courts have generally sided with police when it comes to the balance between an officer’s safety and a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and against unlawful search and seizure.
To stop a pedestrian, an officer needs only an “articulable, reasonable suspicion” that a crime is being committed. There’s a higher standard of probable cause for vehicle stops.
Myers’ attorney, Peter Cohen, said he hears from clients who say they’ve been victims of racial profiling, getting singled out if they are in certain white-majority neighborhoods. Sometimes they are stopped for ordinance violations.
“They are going to feel it’s excessive, and the police are going to think it’s aggressive police work,” Cohen said. “Sometimes it can jump over the line.”
Richard Fredman, attorney for Ramos, declined to comment on the specifics of his client’s case.
Speaking generally, he remarked that the tension taking over the city right now “just didn’t start in St. Louis this last week.
“We are now in a situation that is about to explode, and it’s not like it couldn’t be seen coming,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for over 40 years and police community relations really haven’t gotten any better. Yes, crime is a huge problem but we’re not making a whole lot of progress. I think we have a really good police force, but like everything else, when everybody thinks they’re on the side of right, they think they can do whatever.”
read the bolded very carefully...
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these cops must have the most perfect vision in the history of mankind. to see two men fleeing from a vehicle at night, and tossing handguns...remarkable 
more imaginary guns
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY – A Florissant police vehicle's window shattered after being shot Friday night.
According to St. Louis County police spokesperson Brain Schellman, at approximately 8 p.m. a Florissant police officer was driving eastbound on I-70, near the Bermuda Road exit, when a gunman fired upon the officer. A bullet struck the vehicle, shattering the window.
According to St. Louis County police spokesperson Brain Schellman, at approximately 8 p.m. a Florissant police officer was driving eastbound on I-70, near the Bermuda Road exit, when a gunman fired upon the officer. A bullet struck the vehicle, shattering the window.
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Why does the St. Louis PD keep changing their story about the killing of VonDerrit Myers?
This image was voluntarily released by the owner of the Shaw Market in South St. Louis. VonDerrit Myers is on the left in the black t-shirt. The time stamp says 7:03 PM. Myers and his friends left at 7:05pm.
Shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer on the night of Wednesday, October 8, 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers had just purchased a sandwich with his friends from the local Shaw Market. In an interview with Matt Pearce of the Los Angeles Times, the manager of the market, Berhe Beyet, said:Like six minutes after I sold him a sandwich, he got shot... He wasn't armed when he was here. He didn't have a hoodie.This observation from the store manager, confirmed by the still images and recently released video of Myers and two of his friends, taken just minutes before he was killed, raises a series of questions about exactly what transpired between the time Myers purchased a sandwich, not wearing a hoodie, and then being shot at 17 times by a St. Louis police officer just minutes later in possession of a gun and wearing a hoodie. Below the fold is a video from the Shaw Market. [Video under the link at top of post]
Just about 10 miles away from where Mike Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, two months earlier, the police, just as they did in the aftermath of the Mike Brown killing, have revealed many factual errors in their narrative of the incident and have since changed their story of what happened, time after time after time. What follows is an account of these changes.
Less than two hours after the killing of Myers, the police, on their Twitter account, gave the following account. Please notice how they say that the "suspect," while fleeing, turned and fired at the officer.
Later that evening, Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins of the St. Louis Police Department gave this account to Gawker:The man the officer was chasing jumped from some bushes and struggled with the officer, Adkins said. The man then pulled a gun and fired at the officer, Adkins said. The officer returned fire and fatally shot the man.Shortly thereafter, he adds more details to his account of the shooting:"As [the officer] exited the car, the gentlemen took off running. He was able to follow one of them before he lost him and then found him again as the guy jumped out of some bushes across the street," Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins said. "The officer approached, they got into a struggle, they ended up into a gangway, at which time the young man pulled a weapon and shots were fired. The officer returned fire and unfortunately the young man was killed."Notice in the account from Atkins that Myers is hiding behind some bushes on the scene and jumps out? One major problem exists with this:
Following the recognition that no bushes exist on the scene, police, the following day, completely removed any mention of Myers hiding behind them from their recounting of that evening. But, in this statement, they still claim that Myers "turned" and began shooting at the officer:
Shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer on the night of Wednesday, October 8, 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers had just purchased a sandwich with his friends from the local Shaw Market. In an interview with Matt Pearce of the Los Angeles Times, the manager of the market, Berhe Beyet, said:Like six minutes after I sold him a sandwich, he got shot... He wasn't armed when he was here. He didn't have a hoodie.This observation from the store manager, confirmed by the still images and recently released video of Myers and two of his friends, taken just minutes before he was killed, raises a series of questions about exactly what transpired between the time Myers purchased a sandwich, not wearing a hoodie, and then being shot at 17 times by a St. Louis police officer just minutes later in possession of a gun and wearing a hoodie. Below the fold is a video from the Shaw Market. [Video under the link at top of post]
Just about 10 miles away from where Mike Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, two months earlier, the police, just as they did in the aftermath of the Mike Brown killing, have revealed many factual errors in their narrative of the incident and have since changed their story of what happened, time after time after time. What follows is an account of these changes.
Less than two hours after the killing of Myers, the police, on their Twitter account, gave the following account. Please notice how they say that the "suspect," while fleeing, turned and fired at the officer.
Later that evening, Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins of the St. Louis Police Department gave this account to Gawker:The man the officer was chasing jumped from some bushes and struggled with the officer, Adkins said. The man then pulled a gun and fired at the officer, Adkins said. The officer returned fire and fatally shot the man.Shortly thereafter, he adds more details to his account of the shooting:"As [the officer] exited the car, the gentlemen took off running. He was able to follow one of them before he lost him and then found him again as the guy jumped out of some bushes across the street," Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins said. "The officer approached, they got into a struggle, they ended up into a gangway, at which time the young man pulled a weapon and shots were fired. The officer returned fire and unfortunately the young man was killed."Notice in the account from Atkins that Myers is hiding behind some bushes on the scene and jumps out? One major problem exists with this:
Following the recognition that no bushes exist on the scene, police, the following day, completely removed any mention of Myers hiding behind them from their recounting of that evening. But, in this statement, they still claim that Myers "turned" and began shooting at the officer:
An officer working department-approved secondary for a security company, wearing a St. Louis Police Officer’s uniform was in the 4100 block of Shaw when he attempted a pedestrian check. The male suspect fled on foot. The officer pursued the suspect. The suspect turned and fired a gun at the officer. Fearing for his safety, the officer returned fire striking the suspect, fatally wounding him. The officer was not injured. A gun was recovered from the scene. The officer is a 32-year old white male. He has been on the force for 6 years. The suspect is a black male believed to be 18-20 years old. As is department policy, the officer has been placed on administrative leave. The investigation is ongoing.Holding a press conference about 24 hours after the shooting of Myers, Chief Sam Dotson described the night's events as follows, according to theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The officer followed one of the young men, identified as Myers, into a gangway. He was running and holding his waistband in a way that caused the officer to suspect he had a gun. Myers turned and approached the officer in "an aggressive manner and the officer told Myers to surrender. Myers continued to come at the officer and the two struggled. A sweatshirt the man was wearing came off during the struggle.When did Myers put on this sweatshirt? He is not wearing it inside the store and does not put it on when he leaves the store and begins to walk away on foot.
Also, if you watch the video, you can clearly see that Myers is sagging his jeans. It is common, with this style, to have to hold jeans up when running and is far from being indicative that someone possesses a firearm.
Today, just about 72 hours after the shooting of Myers, a spokesperson for the police, in addition to completely removing the bush from their narrative, now claims that Myers "fell" and began shooting at the officer from the ground.This is an ENORMOUS shift in the story that the police have told for the previous three days.
Furthermore, it is worth noting that the spokesperson for the St. Louis police union, Jeff Roorda,already chiming in on this case, was himselffired as a police officer for falsifying reports and has admitted that he is behind the fundraiser for Darren Wilson.
Also, if you watch the video, you can clearly see that Myers is sagging his jeans. It is common, with this style, to have to hold jeans up when running and is far from being indicative that someone possesses a firearm.
Today, just about 72 hours after the shooting of Myers, a spokesperson for the police, in addition to completely removing the bush from their narrative, now claims that Myers "fell" and began shooting at the officer from the ground.This is an ENORMOUS shift in the story that the police have told for the previous three days.
Furthermore, it is worth noting that the spokesperson for the St. Louis police union, Jeff Roorda,already chiming in on this case, was himselffired as a police officer for falsifying reports and has admitted that he is behind the fundraiser for Darren Wilson.