2 men charged after officer chasing them fell to his death
Two 19-year-old men have been charged with manslaughter after an auxiliary police officer who was chasing them fell to his death from an East St. Louis bridge
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Two 19-year-old men have been charged with manslaughter after an auxiliary police officer who was chasing them fell to his death from a bridge in southern Illinois.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Valention Miller and Chaun'tuan Gillespie are charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated use of a weapon. Miller is also charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer.
Forty-four-year-old Ricardo Davis was working as an auxiliary officer with the Washington Park Police Department Saturday when he and other officers chased a car onto the Poplar Street Bridge in East St Louis. The car crashed and the two men ran off. Davis was pursuing them when he vaulted over a concrete barrier, apparently not realizing there was a gap and a 50-foot (15-meter) drop to the ground.