¹û½´ÊÓÆµ police search for evidence at the scene where undercover officers fatally shot and killed a man behind a building in the 2000 block of Salisbury Street in ¹û½´ÊÓÆµ on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Police said they were investigating a carjacking when officers approached the man he pulled out a gun and ran. Police say they recovered a gun at the scene. Lt. Billy March with the Force Investigative Unit is seen ducking under the tape and Chief Robert Tracy can be seen in the middle of the photo wearing a hat.Ìý
ST. LOUISÌý— The man shot and killed by police Thursday afternoon while they were investigating a carjacking was 18 years old, police said Friday.
Carlos Jackson was killed by officers near the intersection of Salisbury and North 20th streets after he refused to drop a handgun he was carrying, police said.
Officers were at the intersection about 1:30 p.m. after they found a car that had been reported stolen in a carjacking earlier that morning, Maj. Janice Bockstruck said. While they were there, aÌýcar pulled up full of people, and Jackson got out and approached the stolen car.
When the officers tried to speak to Jackson, Bockstruck said,Ìýhe pulled out a gun and ran. They chased him into a nearby alleyway, where they ordered him to drop the gun.
Shots were fired, and Jackson was hit. He died while EMS was treating him at the scene, Bockstruck said.
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¹û½´ÊÓÆµ police search for evidence at the scene where undercover officers fatally shot and killed a man behind a building in the 2000 block of Salisbury Street in ¹û½´ÊÓÆµ on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Police said they were investigating a carjacking when officers approached the man he pulled out a gun and ran. Police say they recovered a gun at the scene. Lt. Billy March with the Force Investigative Unit is seen ducking under the tape and Chief Robert Tracy can be seen in the middle of the photo wearing a hat.Ìý