St. Louis County investigating officer-involved shooting in Normandy

Cpl. Tameika Sanders with the Normandy police department said one of the department's officers fired at 18-year old Amonderez P. Green on Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly fired at two officers who were trying to talk to him. The officers had been called to the scene near Bermuda and Ellington drives, on the western edge of the Norwood Hills Country Club, because the young man was allegedly suicidal. Police said Green shot himself during a period when officers had lost sight of him during a foot chase. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died.

Sanders said both of the responding Normandy officers had received crisis intervention training. She said a Normandy officer deployed a Taser, which was ineffective, before firearms were used. It was not immediately clear if the same officer fired both the Taser and the service weapon, but Sanders said only one officer fired a gun.

"This is a situation where we go into any type of critical incident where it is believed a person may or may not be armed, and the person is volatile, the officer always wants to have a less-than-lethal point of control in order to gain the most effective and non-violent resolution to that situation," Sanders said.

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