NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities investigating after an 18-year-old exchanged gunfire with police say the St. Louis-area officer never hit him, even as the suspect’s father questioned the local police’s claim that his son killed himself.

Amonderez Green of Florissant died early Thursday, 14 hours after a confrontation with a Normandy officer.

Normandy police say Green and an officer exchanged gunfire but neither was struck. They say Green was suicidal, and ran a short ways before shooting himself. Green’s father called that “a total lie.”

St. Louis County Police, who are investigating, say Green was not shot by the officer but said ballistics testing and an autopsy are pending.

The confrontation was near Ferguson, on edge 14 months after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Green was black. The Normandy officer is white.