Black teenager killed by police in Missouri

Shooting reported in St Louis suburb, two miles from Ferguson where similar incident has led to protests and riots.

Weeks of protests and riots had erupted in Ferguson after an officer shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown [Getty]

An 18-year-old black teenager has been killed by a police officer, who claims to have acted in self-defence, at a petrol station in the St Louis suburb of Berkeley in the US state of Missouri.
Police said that an officer was conducting a routine check at the petrol station on Wednesday when he approached two men, one of whom pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer.
Brian Shellman, a police spokesperson, said the officer then fired several shots, striking and fatally wounding the suspect.

He said the second suspect fled the scene.
The St Louis Post Dispatch reported that a group of about 60 people had gathered at the scene.
The dead man's identity was not immediately released, although the St Louis Post Dispatch reported that a woman at the scene identified him as her son, Antonio Martin.
Berkeley is about two miles away from Ferguson, where weeks of protests and riots had erupted after a police officer shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.
The St Louis County Police Department is handling the investigation, and no further details about the incident were immediately available.
(Credit/ Al jazeera)