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ST. LOUIS • New details are emerging from police about the neighbor dispute that brought police Tuesday to the home of Kenny “Kiwi” Herring, who was then killed in a confrontation with officers. In court documents filed in St. Louis Circuit Court , police say Herring had accused a downstairs neighbor that morning of starting a fire on a back deck. Herring then stabbed that neighbor after Herring’s partner provided the kitchen knife, police say. Herring was fatally shot by police after Herring, in a scuffle with officers, cut an officer on the arm. Herring’s partner, Kristy Lynn Thompson , is jailed on assault charges for handing the knife to Herring. And the neighbor who was stabbed was hospitalized with stab wounds. The victim suffered a collapsed lung in the attack, police say. The two officers who fired the shots are on administrative leave, as is protocol, while the case is being reviewed. +10  Kenny "Kiwi" Herring, in a photo posted on social med...

Updated at 5:24 p.m. — Members of the LGBTQ community , activists and advocates are outraged that police shot and killed a transgender black woman this week. Frustrated by the shooting — and that police identified Kenneth “Kiwi” Herring as a man — about 40 people gathered outside the building in which Herring was shot Tuesday for a vigil and to express dissatisfaction with a police force they said was disrespectful and too quick to shoot. The vigil evolved into a march from Sherman Park to Kingshighway West neighborhood . Participants held signs that read “Black Trans Lives Matter.” According to an incident report in which Herring is not named, at about 8 a.m. Tuesday, two police officers responded to a call in the Academy neighborhood that someone had been stabbed on the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue. A 30-year old man who had been cut by a knife told police his attacker was inside the building, the report said. When the two officers entered the building, a person with a knife conf...

SUNBURY — A wanted city man allegedly assaulted two police officers and called himself a racist to hospital staff after a scuffle at a Sunbury apartment, according to police.  Mark Trego, 46, was arrested by city police after they were dispatched on Aug. 17 to a Third Street home for reports of a disturbance. When Cpl. Brad Hare arrived , he attempted to speak with Trego who allegedly tried to fight Hare, police said. Sgt. James Taylor arrived and, after speaking with Hare, attempted to speak with Trego who was standing on top of steps outside a landing of the apartment, police said. Trego kept attempting to fight with police but Taylor then began to walk up the steps and when he got near Trego, Trego struck Taylor , knocking the officer's glasses off, police said. Hare and Taylor both needed to use force to subdue Trego, who had been drinking for two days, according to statements his girlfriend made to police. The woman told police Trego was drunk and was attempti...

Late Update:  Aug. 25, 2017, 9:16 a.m. ET: The St. Louis Circuit Attorney ’s Office on Thursday afternoon charged Mark Colao , 59, with several counts related to the incident described below, including “Resisting Arrest/Detention/Stop By Fleeing, Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Operating A Motor Vehicle In A Careless & Imprudent Manner.” The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department also released additional video of the incident. Watch below: [embedded content] Original story below: A motorist was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly driving through protesters mourning the death of a transgender woman killed by St. Louis police, several  news outlets reported . After a candle-lit vigil in honor of Kenny “Kiwi” Herring, protesters blocked a nearby intersection, walking with candles and chanting. St. Louis Post- Dispatch photojournalist David Carson reported afterwards that most cars took side streets in order to avoid the protest. However, one  black Mercedes drove up t...

| Share | Share | Share | Share ST. LOUIS -- A man was shot and killed by St. Louis police after he stabbed an officer inside an apartment Tuesday morning , police say. The officer suffered a cut to his arm during the encounter, Interim Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said. The injured officer was taken to a hospital and was expected to be treated and released. Officers went to the two-family flat in the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue, east of Union Boulevard in the Academy neighborhood, about 8 a.m. after getting two calls about a stabbing, O'Toole said. Officers arrived to find a stabbing victim, a man who had severe wounds. He told police the name of the person who stabbed him. The suspect was still in the flat. When officers tried to arrest the suspect, a 30-year-old man, he stabbed one of the officers with a large kitchen knife , police said. "The suspect flourished a knife and slashed at the officers, slicing the one officer on the arm," O'Toole said. The injure...

SILVER SPRING, MD — Five suspects have been arrested for holding a Silver Spring family hostage overnight in their apartment, police announced Monday . At about 8:12 a.m. Aug. 2, officers responded to the 8800 block of Manchester Rd. for the report of a home invasion robbery . An adult female victim told officers that five suspects entered her apartment, bound them and kept them like that overnight before they fled from the home early in the morning. The suspects also stole a car, cash and property from the apartment, police said. Police announced the following arrests have been made in connection with this incident: Edwin Ajeo, 16, of the 9000 block of Manchester Rd. in Silver Spring. He is being charged as an adult and was arrested Aug. 10. He is being held without bond. Younus Muayad Jafar Alaameri , 23, of the 9000 block of Manchester Rd. in Silver Spring. He was arrested Aug. 4 and is being held without bond. Bobby Johnson, 26, of the 4400 block of Arnold Road in Suitland. He...

CAMBRILS, SPAIN — There were just a few tourists eating lazy lunches at pavement tables on Friday in this small seaside town just 90 minutes from Barcelona, where just twelve hours ago diners abandoned their paellas and carafes of wine and ran screaming into nearby shops in fear for their lives. But now the scene is serene — though the cafes and restaurants are much quieter than on a typical Friday in August — with a long beach full of sunbathers, families swimming in the sea, and a few pleasure boats floating in the distance. Also nearby: Police tape along the promenade, a couple of police vans, an armed officer, and a huddle of reporters beside their television vans. At about 1:30 a.m. a group of men drove an Audi A3 down the town's promenade and used it to plow into people, Catalan Interior Minister Joaquim Forn said. Susanna Haleobyan, who works in La Taberna del Mar , saw the incident unfold outside the restaurant while she was working. She said dozens of people took she...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...