ST. LOUIS — A 14-year-old black male suspect is in critical but stable condition after he allegedly initiated a firefight with police officers Sunday morning.
The scene of the officer-involved shooting is in the 5000 block of Beacon.
“We believe officers fired shots after suspect fired at least one shot towards officers. Gun was recovered from the scene & being processed,” SLMPD wrote on Twitter.
STL Today reported: “[Officers were] searching for a car taken in a carjacking late last month. After a short pursuit, Dotson said, the officers stopped to try to talk to at least one teen walking on Lillian Avenue. The teen ran off, turned through a vacant lot near the Walbridge Elementary School and fired one shot before officers returned fire.”
No Officers were injured.
Investigators were searching for any possible surveillance video in the area.
The department is asking anyone who may have seen or heard anything to come forward.
No further details were available.
