Post by Logan on Jun 5, 2016 10:22:12 GMT -6
KANSAS CITY (AP) — The prosecutor for St. Louis said Thursday she won't be charging two officers in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old last year, concluding that no evidence disproves claims by police that it was self-defense.
Calling Mansur Ball-Bey's August 2015 death "a tragedy in every aspect of the word," Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said the officers and a witness reported that an armed Ball-Bey ran from a home during a drug and gun raid. Both officers, who are white, have said they fired at Ball-Bey at the same time after he pointed a gun at one of them, though one officer missed, according to Joyce.
Joyce, whose office investigated the shooting separately from an internal police probe, said Ball-Bey's loaded gun was found at the scene, with his palm print on the ammunition clip.
A local medical examiner concluded that Ball-Bey sustained a severed spinal cord, and a bullet pierced his heart.
Read more: www.newstribune.com/news/missouri/story/2016/jun/03/prosecutor-clears-2-st-louis-officers-fatal-shooting/625725/
Calling Mansur Ball-Bey's August 2015 death "a tragedy in every aspect of the word," Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said the officers and a witness reported that an armed Ball-Bey ran from a home during a drug and gun raid. Both officers, who are white, have said they fired at Ball-Bey at the same time after he pointed a gun at one of them, though one officer missed, according to Joyce.
Joyce, whose office investigated the shooting separately from an internal police probe, said Ball-Bey's loaded gun was found at the scene, with his palm print on the ammunition clip.
A local medical examiner concluded that Ball-Bey sustained a severed spinal cord, and a bullet pierced his heart.
Read more: www.newstribune.com/news/missouri/story/2016/jun/03/prosecutor-clears-2-st-louis-officers-fatal-shooting/625725/