ST. LOUIS — The father of an 18-year-old killed in a St. Louis police shooting alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit that his son was shot in the back as he ran. Dennis Ball-Bey says his son, Mansur Ball-Bey, was a church youth leader without a criminal record when he was killed in August 2015. The suit names the city of St. Louis, former police chief Sam Dotson and the two white officers who fired at Ball-Bey, who was black, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The wrongful death lawsuit, however, alleges that Mansur Ball-Bey was unarmed. The officers’ attorney, Brian Millikan, said previously that the shooting was a “tragedy but was absolutely justified.”——Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com

Source: National Post August 20, 2018 17:03 UTC