POLICE OFFICER SHOT IN FERGUSON, TWO SUSPECTS AT LARGE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, September 28, 2014, 10:59

A police officer has been wounded with a gun shot in the US city of Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb still gripped by public outrage over the killing of an unarmed teenager by a cop last month. The police have cordoned off the crime scene.

The police have reported that the two suspects fled on foot. K9 officers and police helicopters are searching the area. Local police have earlier described one suspect as a black male with dreadlocks.

The chase took place outside the Ferguson Community Center. The officer had reportedly blocked a bullet with his bicep, reutrning fire, but not hitting either target.

With mounting public distrust for the police following the initial early August incident, the gathered crowds refused to take any explanation by the authorities at face value.

“A police officer has been shot tonight. That's the only person who has got shot,” Captain Ron Johnson told the crowd which had gathered near the crime scene.

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