The killing of an 18-year-old black man by St. Louis police in the city’s Fountain Park neighborhood ignited protests once again Wednesday, with an angry crowd disputing police accounts of the incident. Police say a young black man pointed a gun at officers about 11:30 a.m. after they arrived to serve a search warrant. Two officers, both white men, fired a total of four times. The St. Louis medical examiner’s office identified the man who was shot as Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, of the 1200 block of Redman Boulevard in the Spanish Lake area. The shooting almost immediately attracted protesters, many of whom had gathered downtown Wednesday morning to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of another young black man killed by police. Chief Sam Dotson says two young armed male suspects ran out of the back of a home near the intersection of Page and Walton in north St. Louis on Wednesday. At the house, near Page Boulevard, police confiscated crack cocaine and four guns, including the one police say Ball-Bay had in his possession. It was described by police as a handgun with an extended magazine stolen from Rolla, Mo. Dotson said one officer shot three times, the other once. Police said officers were in the neighborhood “as it has been plagued by violence.” As officers were about to enter the house, two armed men ran out the back door. Officers in an alley ordered the suspects to stop and drop their guns. They say the suspect, 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them during a chase. As is routine, the two officers involved in the fatal shooting have been placed on administrative leave as the investigation continues. He said police have been in the area in recent days because of several shootings and the carjacking of a 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman on Sunday. It’s the same block where a toddler in July shot himself in the head after an uncle allegedly left him in a room with loaded weapons. “Certainly the good people in this neighborhood should not be plagued by the violence.” 
 
 Wednesday’s shooting came on the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of Kajieme Powell, 25, in St. Louis. Some activists who were at a march Wednesday to remember Powell and protest his shooting left to go to the scene of the Walton Avenue shooting. On Monday, a man was fatally shot and a woman was injured in the 700 block of Aubert Avenue.
– St. Louis police shot to death a black man today who allegedly pointed a gun at officers, raising tensions on a day when protesters were already gathering to mark the anniversary of another fatal police shooting, reports the Post-Dispatch. In today's shooting, police say they were serving a search warrant on a house when two men ran from the home. One of them turned during the chase and raised his gun, at which point the two white officers pursuing him opened fire, say police. "What I know right now is that somebody pointed a gun at police officers," says police chief Sam Dotson. Police recovered crack cocaine and guns from the home. About 200 protesters gathered near the scene after the shooting, reports KTVI. The protesters already had been out in force to mark the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of Kajieme Powell. Police say Powell had been waving a knife at officers when they opened fire.