AP / Yahoo News - Berkeley, Missouri: Police officer kills man who pulled gun - "Scuffles broke out early Wednesday between police officers and a vocal crowd of several hundred people who taunted the officers at the scene" [Maybe the entire state of Missouri can be declared a 'no-go zone,' like African and Muslim areas in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe, where even ambulances and fire trucks must have armed escorts. --tma]

Police: Missouri officer kills man who pulled gun

Scuffles broke out early Wednesday between police officers and a vocal crowd of several hundred people who taunted the officers at the scene of the late Tuesday shooting in Berkeley, Missouri. Police have not released details of any arrests. Berkeley is just a few miles from Ferguson, where a white police officer fatally shot black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.

Authorities have not released any information about the identity or ethnicity of the man killed Tuesday or the police officer who shot him.

According to a statement from St. Louis County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman, a Berkeley police officer was conducting a routine business check at a gas station around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when he approached two men.

One of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said. The officer fired several shots, fatally wounding the man. The second man fled, and the dead man's handgun has been recovered, according to Schellman. ...

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