ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis police officer is recovering after he was impaled on a fence during a Friday afternoon foot chase.
The incident happened just before 4 p.m. near North Florissant Avenue and East Grand Boulevard, near the border of the College Hill and Fairgrounds neighborhoods.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said that a Ford Mustang sped away from officers who tried to pull it over for a traffic violation at Bremen and N. 25th Street. Officers followed the car at a distance until it lost control and struck a curb in the 4400 block of north Florissant Avenue.
A man got out of the car with a bookbag and ran, and officers watched him discard a gun in the parking lot, the police department said.
The man then tried to jump a fence. One officer used his stun gun and the officers jumped the fence and took the suspect into custody.
The officer who deployed the stun gun impaled his leg on the iron fence while trying to climb it. Other officers applied a tourniquet at the scene and drove him to an area hospital, where he was treated and released.
Police found the gun and bookbag containing suspected narcotics in the parking lot.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as more information becomes available.
