Cop Shoots Thug Attaching His Home, Then Learns Stunning Truth About Who He Was According to recent reports, a 20-year-old Missouri man was shot and killed Saturday after breaking into the home of an off-duty cop and personal friend. Earlier, the two had engaged in an argument online about Black Lives Matter. The St. Louis Dispatch reports that after being turned away at the front door by the cops wife, Tyler Gebhard threw a 50-pound concrete planter through the cops back window and made his way inside. The officer (who remains unnamed) confronted Gebhard while his wife and two children hid in the bedroom. He repeatedly instructed him to get down, get down. Gebhard refused to listen to his pleads, so the officer shot him several times. I dont think the officer had a choiceI honestly dont, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters. This story is especially tragic because Gebhard and the off-duty copy were friends who met in church, and several members of Gebhards family are in law enforcement. He had reportedly been struggling with mental health issues and was taking medication. Over the past few weeks, he had been posting several aggressive Black Lives Matter messages. The young man suddenly snapped and began issuing threats to both the officer and uninvolved members of the community, Belmar commented. Not long after, Gebhard was dead. 