ST. LOUIS, MO. (THECOUNT) — UPDATE: Katlyn Alix, 24, has been identified as the St. Louis Metropolitan Departement Police officer accidentally shot and killed by another officer at around 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning.
The accidental shooting occurred after 1:00 a.m. Thursday in the 700 block of Dover Place near Leona Street, police say.
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A St. Louis Metropolitan Departement Police officer was accidentally shot and killed Thursday morning in south St. Louis, reports Fox2Now.
According to authorities, a female officer was at the home of another officer when a gun accidentally was fired. The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear.
During a 2:30 a.m. press conference Chief John Hayden tells FOX2, two on-duty male police officers showed up at one of their homes during their shift. Thereafter an off-duty female police officer stopped by and was accidentally shot in the chest. She rushed to the hospital where she later died. source
It is unclear at this hour which male officer fired the shot.
The officer’s identity has not been released.
Police said she was 24- years- old and had been with the department for a little over two years.
Police Union Business Manager Jeff Roorda released the following statement:
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the St. Louis Police Officers Association lost one our own early this morning in a tragic incident that is still under investigation. We know that the press and the public want to understand what happened. So do we.
But for now, we wait; we wonder; and we weep. We ask that the media and the public respect the privacy of this young officer’s family, friends and co-workers as they mourn.
The motto of the National Law Enforcement Memorial is, ‘It is not how these officers died that made them heroes, it is how they lived.’ That’s what we should focus on right now, how this officer lived. She served her community and her nation with dignity and courage both as a police officer and as a member of the military. That is how she lived, as a hero. And, for now, that is all anybody needs to know.
No other information has been released, the investigation is ongoing.
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