ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Police snipers shot an armed man who barricaded himself inside a vehicle in a St. Charles County neighborhood Friday evening, according to the St. Charles County Police Department.Ìý
A police spokesman said about 1:30 p.m. Saturday that the man was critically injured, but expected to survive. The man was taken to a hospital after officers "began lifesaving efforts."Ìý
Officers received a call about 7 p.m. that a 45-year-old man was "experiencing a mental health crisis" and threatening to harm himself and law enforcement, the department said in a statement. The man was parked in the 3900 block of Summertime Drive. He had firearms with him, including a rifle with a scope, according to police.
As law enforcement, including crisis negotiators and the St. Charles Regional SWAT Team, gathered nearby, the man fired shots into the air, police said. Officers used a drone to observe his actions, and the man got in and out of the vehicle several times.Ìý
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After the man fired, the SWAT team drove their armored vehicle closer in an effort to block any exit, the police department said. Officers reported that the man wasÌý"making a threatening action" toward them. That's when snipers shot him, officers said.
Teresa Lemery lives a couple blocks away and heard the "pop-pop-pop" of gunfire, she said, six or seven times in a row.Ìý
"It was loud," she said Saturday morning. "It sounded like it was in my backyard."
Within a couple of minutes, a helicopter was hovering overhead, Lemery said.Ìý
She stuck her head out her door and could hear what sounded like officers repeating, "Stay in the car!"
"It was scary," Lemery said. "It's usually a pretty quiet neighborhood."
The street is in unincorporated St. Charles County south of St. Peters and east of Weldon Spring.
The St. Charles County Critical Incident Response Team, which includes investigators from multiple jurisdiction, is handling the investigation.
Police shootings in the St. Louis region in 2025
Outside a St. Louis bar on New Year's Day. Inside a doctor's home in Fenton.
At least eight times in 2025, police across the St. Louis region have shot a suspect.
Three of those shootings were fatal.
Here is a list of Post-Dispatch news articles about this year's police shootings.
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Eddie Washington, 28, was shot after wrestling with Overland police who confronted him on the parking lot of a Shell gas station.
St. Louis County police shot and killed Dr. Aleksandr Lanis, 38, when he pulled a gun on them during an arrest at his home, authorities said.
St. Louis 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.
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Post-Dispatch photographers capture hundreds of thousands of images each year. Take a look at some from January 2025. Video edited by Jenna Jones.
