Two teenagers have been shot near the spot where Michael Brown died last year, hours after a teenager was left fighting for his life following a gunfight with police.
A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old were shot at the Canfield Apartment complex at around 2am, where white police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on 8 August 2014.
The younger teenager was hit in the chest and shoulder area, and the 19-year-old suffered a wound to his chest, St Louis County police officer Shawn McGuire said in a statement.
The victims told police officers they were walking by the memorial for Brown when a vehicle drove past and an African American male in a red hoodie started shooting at them.
The pair were rushed to hospital and are being treated for non-life threatening injures.
Around two hours before, Tyrone Harris, 18, was shot after he became engaged in a gunfight with St Louis County police, the department chief Jon Belmar told a press conference.
The teenager has since received emergency surgery at a local hospital.
Belmar told reporters that two small groups were engaged in a shooting outside the protest at West Florissant square.
Without formally naming Harris as the victim, he said that a man walked from the gunfight towards police, and fired on four plain-clothed officers sitting in an unmarked car.
The incident culminated in the four police officers – who were not wearing body cameras – shooting the man.
Harris was then rushed to hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.
“They were criminals. They weren't protesters. There is a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that we don't have peace that prevail," Belmar told reporters.
But Harris' father told the St Louis Post-Dispatch: “We think there's a lot more to this than what's being said.â€
â€We can't sustain this as a community,“ he said.
A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old were shot at the Canfield Apartment complex at around 2am, where white police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on 8 August 2014.
The younger teenager was hit in the chest and shoulder area, and the 19-year-old suffered a wound to his chest, St Louis County police officer Shawn McGuire said in a statement.
The victims told police officers they were walking by the memorial for Brown when a vehicle drove past and an African American male in a red hoodie started shooting at them.
The pair were rushed to hospital and are being treated for non-life threatening injures.
Around two hours before, Tyrone Harris, 18, was shot after he became engaged in a gunfight with St Louis County police, the department chief Jon Belmar told a press conference.
The teenager has since received emergency surgery at a local hospital.
Belmar told reporters that two small groups were engaged in a shooting outside the protest at West Florissant square.
Without formally naming Harris as the victim, he said that a man walked from the gunfight towards police, and fired on four plain-clothed officers sitting in an unmarked car.
The incident culminated in the four police officers – who were not wearing body cameras – shooting the man.
Harris was then rushed to hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.
“They were criminals. They weren't protesters. There is a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that we don't have peace that prevail," Belmar told reporters.
But Harris' father told the St Louis Post-Dispatch: “We think there's a lot more to this than what's being said.â€
â€We can't sustain this as a community,“ he said.
