Police officer shoots teen near Ferguson flashpoint

Jim Suhr

A St Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him, only a few miles from where the fatal shooting of a black man by a white officer led to weeks of protests earlier this year, police said yesterday.

A crowd of about 100 people gathered at the scene in Berkeley, Missouri, close to the town of Ferguson, where 18-year-old Michael Brown died in August.