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Kinloch officer says he accidentally shot motorist
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Kinloch police officer says he accidentally shot motorist
By Heather Ratcliffe
Of The Post-Dispatch
A Kinloch police officer said he accidentally shot a motorist during a traffic stop early Saturday then chased the man for 25 miles into Maryland Heights.
The officer, Walter Wilson, the former police chief in Kinloch, said he stopped the man about 3:40 a.m. at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Suburban Avenue in Kinloch.
He suspected the motorist, a 24-year-old man from Bridgeton, was involved with a drug transaction, Wilson said.
Wilson says he reached through the car window to grab the man's keys in the ignition, and his drawn gun accidentally fired. The shot hit the man in the shoulder.
The motorist sped away, knocking Wilson to the ground. Wilson jumped into his patrol car and gave chase.
Officers from several departments joined the chase, which ended at a cul-de-sac on Galaxy Place in Maryland Heights. Wilson and other police officers blocked the suspect with their cars. Wilson fired several more shots at the motorist, St. Louis County police said.
Police did not find any drugs on the suspect, Wilson said. The suspect was unarmed.
The man was arrested and taken to St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he was in stable condition. Police did not release his name.
After St. Louis County police finish an investigation, prosecutors will decide on charges.
Kinloch Police Chief Linda Witfield said Wilson had been placed on administrative leave.
Witfield, the former police chief in Wellston, replaced Wilson as chief after he was removed July 19. Wilson works as a detective sergeant at the Kinloch police department.
Mayor Keith Conway has refused to discuss the reason for the change.
The change came soon after Kinloch business owner Mike Singleton accused the police department under Wilson's command of failing to prosecute Marc "Smooth" Collins, a suspect in a drive-by shooting in April.
Reporter Heather Ratcliffe:\ E-mail: hratcliffe@post-dispatch.com\ Phone: 314-863-2821
http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodaySunday/86256A0E0068FE5086256C350037E8BE?OpenDocument&PubWrapper=A-section
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - josey1 on 09/17/2002 05:28:23
By Heather Ratcliffe
Of The Post-Dispatch
A Kinloch police officer said he accidentally shot a motorist during a traffic stop early Saturday then chased the man for 25 miles into Maryland Heights.
The officer, Walter Wilson, the former police chief in Kinloch, said he stopped the man about 3:40 a.m. at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Suburban Avenue in Kinloch.
He suspected the motorist, a 24-year-old man from Bridgeton, was involved with a drug transaction, Wilson said.
Wilson says he reached through the car window to grab the man's keys in the ignition, and his drawn gun accidentally fired. The shot hit the man in the shoulder.
The motorist sped away, knocking Wilson to the ground. Wilson jumped into his patrol car and gave chase.
Officers from several departments joined the chase, which ended at a cul-de-sac on Galaxy Place in Maryland Heights. Wilson and other police officers blocked the suspect with their cars. Wilson fired several more shots at the motorist, St. Louis County police said.
Police did not find any drugs on the suspect, Wilson said. The suspect was unarmed.
The man was arrested and taken to St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he was in stable condition. Police did not release his name.
After St. Louis County police finish an investigation, prosecutors will decide on charges.
Kinloch Police Chief Linda Witfield said Wilson had been placed on administrative leave.
Witfield, the former police chief in Wellston, replaced Wilson as chief after he was removed July 19. Wilson works as a detective sergeant at the Kinloch police department.
Mayor Keith Conway has refused to discuss the reason for the change.
The change came soon after Kinloch business owner Mike Singleton accused the police department under Wilson's command of failing to prosecute Marc "Smooth" Collins, a suspect in a drive-by shooting in April.
Reporter Heather Ratcliffe:\ E-mail: hratcliffe@post-dispatch.com\ Phone: 314-863-2821
http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodaySunday/86256A0E0068FE5086256C350037E8BE?OpenDocument&PubWrapper=A-section
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - josey1 on 09/17/2002 05:28:23
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Police Searching For Two Suspects
WASHINGTON -- Police in the District of Columbia are looking for two men, who fled the scene of a morning shooting where an off-duty D.C. police officer was wounded.
The female officer was off-duty and in her personal car when the incident occurred just before 5 o'clock Monday morning. The shooting happened at the Texaco station on New York and West Virginia avenues, in northeast Washington.
Authorities said that two men were attempting to rob another woman when shots were fired. The off-duty officer was shot in the leg, and the robbery victim was also hurt.
Police said the two men may have left the scene in a gold Nissan Maxima.
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