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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...e-officer-had-gun-residue-on-hands/ar-AA6P06M
Teenager shot by St Louis police officer 'had gun residue on hands'
© Reuters A protester marches through the streets during a demonstration in Clayton, Missouri, in the wake of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr.
An 18-year-old who was shot dead last week after he allegedly opened fire on a police officer in St Louis, Missouri, had gunshot residue on his hands and waistband when he died, the police said on Tuesday. Results from crime laboratory tests on the body of Vonderrit Myers appeared to give further support to police claims that Myers shot at the officer following a confrontation in the Shaw neighbourhood. Relatives denied that Myers was carrying a gun and said he was holding only a sandwich.
The St Louis force had already said that it recovered a 9mm handgun from Myers at the scene and that three of its rounds had been discovered fired towards the officer, who was in uniform but working a shift in his second job as a private neighbourhood security guard. The officer’s name has not been released.
Results from the Missouri state highway patrol lab, which police released on Tuesday afternoon, said that gunshot residue was discovered on Myers’s hands, on his T-shirt and in the waistband and pockets of his jeans.
Residue on his hands “could mean the individual discharged a firearm, was near a firearm when it was discharged, or touched an object with gunshot residue on it,” the police statement said.
The police noted that people shot at close range could also have residue deposited on their hands. However, Myers is said to have been standing some distance away from the officer when the shots were fired.
The residue discovered on Myers’s clothes, meanwhile, “could be from being in the environment of a discharged weapon or coming in contact with an object with gunshot residue on it”, according to the police statement. It noted that the clothing residue could have been older than that found on Myers’s hands.
Photographs purporting to be of Myers holding two handguns circulated on social media in recent days. Brian Millikan, an attorney for the officer involved,
told the St Louis Post Dispatch that his client recognised both Myers and the two-tone firearm shown in the pictures. Police said that the handgun recovered from the scene had been reported stolen on 26 September.
Myers was charged with possession of an unlawful weapon and resisting arrest in a separate incident in June, and was placed under house arrest.
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Contradiction after contradiction by these cacs