ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County police block off an area near West Florissant and Ferguson avenues on Monday, Jan. 13, 2024. A man was hit by a police SUV that morning after he was waving a gun, shooting and blocking traffic. Officers fired at him near Ferguson. He later died.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Authorities on Tuesday morning released the name of the 37-year-old man killed after he exchanged gunfire with police.
Durell Dorn died after he was hit by a police SUV following a gunfight with officers on Monday morning in the Ferguson area, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County police said.
Police said Dorn lived in the 5200 block of Gilmore Avenue in the city's Walnut Park East neighborhood.
The interaction was caught on video by a driver, showing Dorn walking down West Florissant Avenue, waving a gun, shooting at least once and blocking traffic.
Sgt. Tracy Panus, a spokeswoman for county police, said on Monday officers were called to the area around 10 a.m. after a vehicle driven by Dorn was in a crash at West Florissant and Lucas and Hunt Road. She said he got out of his vehicle and began firing a gun indiscriminately as he walked down West Florissant.
Two county police SUVs responded, and, near Ferguson Avenue, the man fired at one. Officers fired back, and one then struck him with a police car. The man died at a hospital, Panus said.
On Monday, police were unsure whether Dorn had been shot.Â
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County Medical Examiner's Office said on Tuesday it could not yet release any specifics on Dorn's injuries.Â
The shooting happened at about 10 a.m. Monday.Â
A video on social media appeared to show the moments leading up to the man’s death as he walked up West Florissant Avenue, firing a gun and blocking traffic.
Panus said she could not confirm the authenticity of the video, but her description of the incident matched key details in the footage .
Had Durell been here, someone would have caught him, stopped him, calmed him down. Before he got into that car, before he crashed, before he got out with a gun.
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The video was a compilation of dash cam, body cam and soundless traffic surveillance footage from the morning of Jan. 13 near the Ferguson bor…
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County police block off an area near West Florissant and Ferguson avenues on Monday, Jan. 13, 2024. A man was hit by a police SUV that morning after he was waving a gun, shooting and blocking traffic. Officers fired at him near Ferguson. He later died.
