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Police shoot and kill man they say charged at officers with knife, metal pipe in downtown St. Louis 23%
By Rebecca Thiele0%
5/19/2026, 1:24:14 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 45.3% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 495 faulty-reasoning hits from 245 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.1% and a BS Rank of 23% (16,964 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 77.50% of the article peer group.
Police shot and killed a man in downtown St.
Louis on Tuesday morning after, investigators said, he threatened officers with a pipe and a chef's knife.
Police responded to calls just before 11 a.m. to reports of a man swinging a metal pipe near Locust Street and Broadway, near the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis.
Police said the pipe looked like something that might belong to a pop-up tent frame.
The man also had some kind of stun gun, police said.
When an officer on a bicycle arrived, the man threw a cup of coffee at the officer and ran north, refusing to put down the pipe, police said.
Multiple officers responded to the officer’s call for assistance.
They caught up with the man near the Missouri Athletic Club and tried to use a Taser but said it had no effect on him.
According to police, the man then charged at officers with the pipe and an officer fired shots.
They say the man dodged the gunshots, then pulled out a chef's knife and charged at officers again.
An officer then fired, striking him.
The man was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
No officers were injured.
The St.
Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the shooting.
Officers are trying to identify the man and determine whether he had threatened anyone before police arrived.
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