"Police officers shot dead a teenager armed with a handgun after he got out of a stolen car in St. Louis on Wednesday night.
The shooting comes five months after a police officer shot dead an unarmed teenager in a suburb of the city.
Officers were tailing the car, which was reported stolen in December, when it struck a wall and for sport or target shooting the engine stopped, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson told reporters.
The 19-year-old passenger was carrying a Tec 9 handgun (semi automatic hand gun, what's he doing with this?) when he got out of the car to flee, and officers ordered him to drop the weapon, Dotson said. Both officers opened fire when he did not, fatally wounding him, he added."
What should be said is that the officers also saved the lives of all those people who would have been killed by this person if he had not been stopped. Tec 9, not for sport or target shooting, killing is what its for. The people of St Louis should award these two officers a medal, thank God they walked away unharmed.
The world is better off without the person who was killed. He made a very poor decision when he didn't drop the weapon.
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