1 | In this frame from surveillance video provided by the St. Louis County Police shows the 18-year-old black suspect, center in light colored clothes, minutes before he fired a gun at plainclothes officers in Ferguson, Mo., on Sunday. |
2 | Tyrone Harris Jr. was shot late Sunday after police say he opened fire on an unmarked police van. |
3 | The shooting happened as protesters nearby were marking the anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown, who was killed by a white police officer. |
4 | FERGUSON, Mo. |
5 | St. Louis County Police on Tuesday released surveillance video they say shows a man injured in a shootout with police holding a gun during street protests in Ferguson on Sunday night. |
6 | Tyrone Harris, 18, who lives in Northwoods, was charged Monday with several counts of assaulting police. |
7 | Police on Tuesday uploaded a short clip of surveillance video provided to them by Solo Insurance Services on West Florissant Avenue. |
8 | The video, according to police, "shows Harris grab a handgun out of his waistband once shots are fired during the protest." |
9 | A man can be seen running to the right in the video, then running back to the left with a gun in his hand. |
10 | St. Louis County Police Officer Shawn McGuire said investigators are not aware of any surveillance video that shows the shooting. |
11 | The owner of the insurance company could not be reached Tuesday. |
12 | Court records said Harris was part of a group exchanging gunfire with another group at 11:23 p.m. Sunday on West Florissant Avenue during protests marking the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. |
13 | Police said the officers went after Harris in an unmarked car, with warning lights flashing, and that he fired at them, with at least one shot hitting their vehicle. |
14 | They returned fire, pursued him on foot and shot him after he turned at them with the gun, the department said. |
15 | A 9mm Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistol, reported stolen in Cape Girardeau, Mo., was found next to him, officials said. |
16 | He remained hospitalized Tuesday. |
17 | Also on Tuesday, police said the protests a day earlier that marked the Brown shooting anniversary led to the arrests of more than 100 people. |
18 | An additional 22 people were arrested Monday night and early Tuesday after police used pepper spray to clear West Florissant Avenue. |
19 | Police said some in the crowd of protesters threw rocks and frozen water bottles at officers. |
20 | St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger said the state of emergency he had declared would continue through Tuesday evening and a decision will be made Wednesday about extending the measure further into the week. |
21 | "I'm inclined not to have it last any longer than needed," the county executive said. |
22 | Stenger commended the efforts of the county police, along with the contributions from Ferguson and other departments, for minimizing tensions Monday night. |
23 | While water bottles and rocks were occasionally launched, confrontations between police and demonstrators were infrequent. |
24 | "We maintained order, there was no looting, no shooting and no one was injured," he said. |
25 | Meanwhile, a Canadian TV journalist became at least the third charged almost a year after being detained while covering the original protests in Ferguson that followed the Brown shooting. |
26 | CTV's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Tom Walters is facing a charge of interfering with a police officer, his employer reported Tuesday. |
27 | Walters was detained on Aug. 20, 2014, after trying to ask Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. |
28 | Ron Johnson a question. |
29 | His arrest was captured on video. |
30 | "CTV News strongly condemns the charges filed by St. Louis County against CTV News correspondent Tom Walters while he reported on the protests in Ferguson, Missouri last August," CTV News President Wendy Freeman said in a statement Tuesday. |
31 | On Monday, reporters Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post and Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post learned they had been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer in a separate incident while reporting on the unrest that followed the police shooting of Brown. |
32 | St. Louis County spokesman Cordell Whitlock said the county had no comment on the timing of the charges or why they decided to pursue them, saying they were "all pending legal matters." |