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A St. Louis-area police officer was "ambushed" during a traffic stop Friday morning, police said. The cop was …
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Missouri police officer 'ambushed' during traffic stop; comes day after Dallas police attack
Officer shot in Ballwin
KMOV - St. Louis, MO
The cop was walking back to his patrol car after ticketing a driver for speeding in Ballwin, a suburb of St. Louis. The driver, later identified by prosecutors as Antonio Taylor, 31, got out of his pulled-over car, shot the officer at least once in the neck and fled, police said.
The Ballwin officer was rushed to a local hospital in critical but stable condition, Ballwin Chief Kevin Scott said Friday evening in a Facebook video.
He said the officer was "fighting for his life" and surrounded by his family.
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The chief said the officer "had no chance at all" to pull out his service weapon and was "completely helpless" against his attacker.
Antonio Taylor was arrested for shooting a Ballwin, Mo., police officer on Friday morning.
(Oklahoma Department of Corrections)The unidentified wounded officer, who is serving in his ninth year as an officer, is white.
A woman who lives near the scene told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she got a towel and applied it to the policeman's neck until a nurse arrived from somewhere and did CPR.
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Taylor was caught shortly after the attack following a foot chase, officials said. Scott said at a news conference later in the day that investigators have dashcam video of the shooting and that at least three shots fired.
The shooting occurred during a traffic stop in the quiet St. Louis suburb. Above, the car Taylor was driving.
(Huy Mach/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)"Make no mistake: We believe during this investigation that Ballwin officer was ambushed, period," Belmar said.
Taylor now faces three felony charges of assault of a police officer, armed criminal action and a felon in possession, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch said. Taylor was booked into jail on a $500,000 cash bond ahead of an arraignment expected Monday.
Ballwin is about 20 miles from Ferguson, where the police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in 2014 set off waves of protests, largely organized by activist group Black Lives Matter.
The Texas shooter — identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson — was killed by a police robot bomb after an hours-long standoff with cops.
During the tense negotiations, Johnson allegedly told police he “wanted to kill white people, especially white cops,” officials said. He said he was not affiliated with any group, including Black Lives Matter, but said he was furious over the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
With News Wire Services.
With ADAM SHRIER, TOBIAS SALINGER
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