ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A man was shot and injured by police after officers said he stole a woman's keys at gunpoint and shot at a police officer Monday.
Adrian Washington with the St. Louis County Police Department said the man stole a woman's car keys at about 11:30 a.m. on the parking lot of a store on the 6800 block of Parker Road in north St. Louis County.
Police said the man got into the car but then got out shortly after and walked away.
Police received a second call advising them that the suspect was walking westbound on Parker Road from Partridge Run. An officer arrived in the area and was driving southbound on Parker approaching Partridge when he was "immediately fired upon by the suspect," the department said.
The man fired multiple shots that struck the officer's vehicle, breaking the back glass and driver's side window.
The officer, a 32-year-old who has worked in law enforcement for seven years, was not struck.
Washington said the officer then returned fire, striking the suspect. The suspect was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
St. Louis County police closed part of Parker Road in north St. Louis County for the investigation. The area of a Dollar General store on the 6800 block of Parker Road was also blocked off with crime-scene tape.
Washington said he did not know why the suspect walked away from the woman's car after stealing the woman's car.
Video from the scene showed the police vehicle with a shattered rear windshield and driver's side window.
Latonya Summers, a north St. Louis County resident for the last 40 years, said the crime in the area has to get under control. "It's going to take a community and everybody caring and stepping up to the plate and just watching and working as a team to get the crime out of our neighborhoods," Summers said.
"I'm just thankful that you know that my kids are older and they understand, they not doing this! And it just makes me so mad that I see this every day. Every day! No matter where I'm going out here in this area," she said.
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