ST. LOUIS (AP) - Two veteran St. Louis police officers have fatally shot a man who pointed a gun in their direction during the city's annual Mardi Gras celebration.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/Xk4FMi) reports the officers were working secondary security jobs for the all-day street party at 2:30 p.m. Saturday when they responded to shots fired south of the Mardi Gras zone.
Police say the officers rode a golf cart to the scene, where they saw a 32-year-old man with a weapon. They told him to drop the gun, but instead he pointed it at them.
Both officers fired shots and wounded the man, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The name of the dead man wasn't being released while family members were being notified.