SWAT officers kill St. Louis man who fired on them with AK-47, police say
ST. LOUIS • SWAT officers shot and killed a man who opened fire on them with an AK-47 as they tried to serve a warrant Wednesday morning at a home on South Kingshighway, police said.
“It was a firefight inside that house,” acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said. “Numerous shots were fired.”
Killed in the exchange was Isaiah M. Hammett, 21, who was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured.
O’Toole said that about 11:20 a.m., eight members of the St. Louis police SWAT team arrived to execute a search warrant at the single-family residence in the the 5400 block of South Kingshighway.
They announced their presence, then broke down the door and threw in a “flash-bang” diversion device, he said. Source
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