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Patrol: Man fatally shot after pulling gun on trooper

wpid-mshp-logo111.jpgSULLIVAN, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man has been fatally shot by a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper after allegedly pulling a gun on the officer.

The shooting happened Wednesday near Sullivan, 70 miles southwest of St. Louis. The man killed was 44-year-old Joseph Weatherby of Sullivan.

Patrol spokesman Cody Fulkerson says the trooper initiated a traffic stop on an Interstate 44 service road one mile west of Sullivan. Weatherby sped across a parking lot of the Ditch Witch Groundbreaking Co.

After a brief chase, Fulkerson says Weatherby got out and ran, pointing a gun at the trooper during the foot chase. The trooper shot him once in the chest.

Weatherby died later Wednesday at a Sullivan hospital.

Fulkerson says Weatherby did not fire a shot. The trooper’s name has not been released.

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