Darryl Ross

officers were near the Shell gas station when they said they saw several people with guns just after 11:30 p.m., according to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department incident report. The officers were in an undercover vehicle and dressed in plain clothes but were wearing black, bulletproof vests with the word “POLICE” in white letters on the front and back. One of the armed men, later identified as Ross, "quickly walked off" the gas station lot and into a nearby alley, according to the report. Officers followed, him, and he began running, then tripped over a curb, fell and dropped a pistol. As the detectives approached him, they said Ross reached for the gun and both detectives shot him.