JENNINGS, Mo. (KMOX/AP) — A 14-year-old boy suspected in an attempted carjacking was shot to death by the car’s owner in suburban St. Louis, police there said.
The incident happened just before 4 p.m. Sunday at a gas station parking lot in Jennings, police said. Officers called to the gas station found Damaurio Thomas, 14, of St. Louis, with gunshot wounds and a 53-year-old man suspected of shooting him at the scene.
The carjacking victim has not been identified by police.
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Thomas attempted to flee the area on foot, but was found and taken to a hospital, where he died about an hour later, police said. Police also say the 14-year-old had an accomplice that fled the scene and has not been located by police.
Police said an accomplice with the injured boy ran away and has not been found.
Police have not released the names of the boy killed or the man who shot him. The man was taken in for questioning. Officers took guns from the man and the boy who was shot, police said.