Mansur Ball-Bey

Deadly force

According to early reports from police, officers were searching a residence when two suspects exited and one, Ball-Bey, pointed a weapon at officers. An autopsy later showed that Ball-Bey died from a gunshot wound in his back, police said. An attorney for Ball-Bey's family maintains that the teen was unarmed at the time of the shooting. Officials said the other man fled and remains at large, and that they recovered guns and cocaine from the scene. Ball-Bey's death sparked protests in St Louis.