Charges not recommended after investigation into Vonderrit Myers deathPosted 11:11 pm, December 5, 2014, by Paul Schankman, Updated at 11:24pm, December 5, 2014
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – The St. Louis Police Department’s investigation into the shooting death of Vonderrit Myers Jr., ends with a decision not to seek charges against the officer who shot and killed the 18-year-old on October 8. Myers was shot and killed by a city officer working a secondary job as a security guard in the Shaw neighborhood.
“I believe whatever they concluded was false,” said VonDerrit Myers Sr., the teenager`s father.
To believe the version of events Vonderrit Myers Jr.`s parents believe, you have to be willing to believe police are staging a sinister cover-up.
“He did not have a gun at all,” said Syreeta Myers, Vonderrit Myers Jr.`s mother. When asked by a reporter where she though the gun reportedly found at scene and allegedly used by her son came from, she replied, “the police.”
The police have maintained all along Myers had a gun and was firing at the officer, making the officer`s use of deadly force justified. Police also say there was gunpowder residue on Myers, and that several shell casings matching the gun police allege he had, were found nearby, confirming the allegation Myers shot at the officer.
But unlike other St. Louis City police shootings, this is the first to be reviewed by the newly formed Force Investigative Unit.
Under the new rules, when the FIU finishes its investigation, the unit`s findings automatically go to the circuit attorney for a separate review.
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