Updated with name of man shot, charges.
ST. LOUISÌý— A Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ police officer shot a man Saturday who was fleeing from police in the Princeton Heights neighborhood, authorities said.
Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ police officers tried to pull over a Ford pickup truck after they got an alert from a license-plate reader that the truck had been stolen in Richmond Heights. The driver didn't stop for officers at Page Boulevard and Walton Avenue, and drove off.
Court records said the truck raced along residential streets at speeds of up to 80 mph. It eventually crashed into a pole in an alley between Thekla and Lillian avenues, Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ police Detective Tracey Chaney said in court records.
The driver got out and hid in a nearby yard. Police later identified him as 55-year-old Vincent Lamont Simmons.
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An officer shot Simmons while trying to arrest him, police said. Simmons was shot in the torso. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.Ìý
Police said officers found a firearm in the vehicle. The department's Force Investigation Unit will examine the use of force.
Three days after the shooting, Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ prosecutors charged Simmons with resisting arrest, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance. Police said they found cocaine in his sock at the hospital, Chaney said.
Simmons lives in the 1300 block of Woodruff Avenue in Pagedale.Ìý
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Kim Bell of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Police shootings in the Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ region in 2025
Outside a Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ bar on New Year's Day. Inside a doctor's home in Fenton.
At least ten times in 2025, police across the Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ region have shot a suspect.
Four of those shootings were fatal.
Here is a list of Post-Dispatch news articles about this year's police shootings.
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The police say he pointed a gun at an officer. The man was shot at least one time, and his condition was not released.
Police found three people dead at a home in the 5100 block of Wells Avenue on Friday morning. Officers also killed a man in a shootout who is …
Eddie Washington, 28, was shot after wrestling with Overland police who confronted him on the parking lot of a Shell gas station.
Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ County police shot and killed Dr. Aleksandr Lanis, 38, when he pulled a gun on them during an arrest at his home, authorities said.
Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ police said an officer shot and injured Leslie Hopkins, 72, when Hopkins ran at police with a knife.
Vincent Lamont Simmons, 55, was shot in an alley after crashing a pickup at the end of a pursuit.
The sheriff said deputies tried to negotiate with 39-year-old Timothy L. Johnston, then fatally shot him when he fired a shot at them.
The 45-year-old man, armed with firearms, had barricaded himself inside a vehicle in the 3900 block of Summertime Drive, police said.
Police shot and injured the boy after they say heÌýled officers on a car chase and drove the car into an officer.Ìý
Kobie Davis, 25, was killed by a Leadington, Missouri, police officer hired to work security for The Wheelhouse at 1000 Spruce Street.
Post-Dispatch photographers capture hundreds of images each week; here are just some photos from February 2025. Video edited by Jenna Jones.
