An 18-year-old black man died on Thursday from a bullet wound to his face after a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb of Normandy as members of his family disputed officers’ reports that the man committed suicide.
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The St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office released new details on the death of a Florissant teen who died during a confrontation with Normandy police.
Ballistic evidence of the bullet confirmed the round was sacked from a.38-caliber revolver, the same type of weapon that police said Green produced Thursday when he was confronted by a Normandy officer after relatives of Green called authorities “seeking police and medical intervention”.
Police said Green was suicidal and ran a short ways before shooting himself. Police said none of the Normandy officer’s shots hit Green.
Normandy, which has 5,000 residents, is just south of Ferguson, which became the focus of protests against racial profiling and police treatment of minorities after a white policeman fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old African-American in August 2014 in an incident that was later ruled justified.
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Green ran and officers chased him on foot before momentarily losing sight of him, police said. The suspect pulled a gun and began shooting at officers. They have not said if they had matched the bullet that killed Green to his gun. All three missed, Schellman said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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Emergency room workers who later treated Green concluded his only injury ‘was the self-inflicted one, ‘ Schellman said. Wilson resigned in November.
