FERGUSON, Missouri: A black teen was gunned down on late Tuesday reportedly during retaliatory attack by a police official in a town near Ferguson city of Missouri, the same city where another unarmed black teen Michael Brown killed by a white security official.
A crowd of about 100 protesters gathered at the scene in Berkeley, located some two miles (3.2 kilometers) from Ferguson, where a white police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old unarmed black man in August.
Another 18-year-old victim who reportedly identified as Antonio Martin citing his mother, Toni Martin. She told reporters that that her son’s girlfriend told her that the police was messing with them and when her son tried to get up and run, the police officials shot him down.
She claimed that they won’t tell her nothing and disallowing her to see her baby, foreign media reported.
On the other hand, police said on Wednesday that the black teenager was killed after he allegedly pointed a handgun at an officer near Ferguson city in the incident took place at late Tuesday at a gas station.
The incident took place late Tuesday at a gas station, while the officer was on a routine patrol, AFP reported.
St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said in a statement that the officer from the city of Berkeley was conducting a routine check at the gas station when he noticed two men and approached them.
St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said in a statement that the officer from the city of Berkeley was conducting a routine check at the gas station when he noticed two men and approached them.
Schellman said one of the men then pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer.
“Fearing for his life, the Berkeley officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him.”
News reports, however, said some eyewitnesses disputed that account.
Local officials, who reportedly were planning a press conference later Wednesday, were said to have video footage of the shooting recorded by a security camera at the gas station.
Police said a handgun had been recovered at the scene and added that the second man had fled.
The shooting is the latest in several such incidents that led to months of protests over how police in the United States interact with the country’s black community.
It follows the racially-charged fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson in August.
Already tense racial relations were further frayed over the weekend fatal shootings of two officers in Brooklyn, by an apparently emotionally disturbed man whose online postings suggested he was motivated by a desire for revenge over the recent police killings of unarmed black men.
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