{"id":14358,"date":"2014-10-09T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/turmoil-st-louis-after-police-kill-vonderrit-meyers-jr-18\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:40:00","slug":"turmoil-st-louis-after-police-kill-vonderrit-meyers-jr-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/turmoil-st-louis-after-police-kill-vonderrit-meyers-jr-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Turmoil in St. Louis After Police Kill Vonderrit Meyers Jr. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turmoil in St. Louis After Police Kill Vonderrit Meyers Jr. 18<\/h3>\n

\n By Jamilah King<\/span> Oct 09, 2014<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Once again, people took to the streets of St. Louis to protest the killing of a black teenager by a white police officer. This time, the boy’s name was Vonderrit<\/span>\u00a0Meyers Jr.<\/p>\n

From New York Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Angry and hurt protesters took to the streets in St. Louis on Wednesday night after a police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old in the Shaw neighborhood, near where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot in August.\u00a0<\/span>According to the St. Louis\u00a0Post-Dispatch<\/i>,<\/a>\u00a0police and protesters have wildly different versions of how the shooting occurred. Police say four pedestrians fled after they were stopped by an off-duty officer on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The officer chased one of the men, later identified as Vonderrick Myers Jr., and claims the teenager jumped out of some bushes, struggled with him, then pulled out a gun and shot at him. The officer says he returned fire, killing Myers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NBC News is reporting<\/a> that the officer fired his gun 17 times after at least three shots were fired at him, but eyewitnesses have a vastly different perspective and say the teen was holding a sandwhich, not a gun. The shooting came nearly two months to the day that Mike Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson.\u00a0St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff photographer David Carson captured some of the scene on Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fatal police officer involved shooting scene on 4100 block of Shaw in #stl<\/a>, growing crowd upset pic.twitter.com\/5eNkWj4Frq<\/a><\/p>\n

— David Carson (@PDPJ) October 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n