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Two U.S. marshals, one St. Louis officer are shot while making arrest
STLtoday.com
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
ST. LOUIS • A felon who was sought for allegedly assaulting a city police officer shot three members of a fugitive-search team this morning, wounding one of them critically, before one of the officers shot and killed him, authorities said.
A St. Louis officer, assisted by two federal deputy marshals, went to 3117 Osage Street seeking Carlos Boles, 36, on indictments charging him with assaulting an officer and possessing drugs. Both charges are from an incident in October outside the same residence on Osage, near Marquette Park in south St. Louis.
Authorities said that when the three officers tried to contact Boles at the residence at 6:45 a.m. today, the suspect opened fire, shooting one deputy marshal in the head and wounding the other deputy and police officer. One of the officers then returned fire, killing Boles.
St. Louis police Lt. Col. Tim Reagan said the department's violent offenders unit requested help from the U.S. Marshals office in St. Louis in arresting Boles. The St. Louis Grand Judy indicted Boles on Jan. 11 on charges of assault and drug possession, stemming from the incident on Osage on Oct. 11.
William Sibert, the U.S. marshal in St. Louis, said one deputy was shot in the head and the other was hit in the ankle. Sibert spoke at a press conference at St. Louis University Hospital, where the two deputy marshals were taken. He was joined by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom.
The St. Louis officer was grazed, they said, and was in good shape at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
"This is a tragic example of what our law enforcement officers go through every day," Slay said. "They need our support and their families need our support."
A spokeswoman said the marshal who had been shot in the head was in critical condition and the other was in fair condition at SLU.
The police officer was grazed in the face after his bullet-resistent vest apparently turned a bullet aside, police said. He was further injured when he fell after being shot.
St. Louis Circuit Court records show that Boles was accused of striking and choking a city police officer on Oct. 11 outside the address on Osage. Police reports say two uniformed officers suspected Boles of dealing drugs and tried to question him, but he fought and struck one of the officers. The report says officers used a Taser to subdue Boles.
Reagan, chief of staff for the St. Louis police department, said officers applied for warrants the day after the incident on Osage in October, but no charges were filed until the drug-analysis report was completed one month later. The grand jury then indicted Boles in January.
Court records show that Boles has five felony convictions. In 1993, he pleaded guilty of assault. In 2005, he pleaded guilty of four instances of felony possession of controlled substances. Police said the pill bottle that officers saw Boles toss at the scene in October was found to contain heroin and cocaine base.
'THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS'
The U.S. Mashal's Service is the enforcement arm for the federal courts. Among other duties, its deputy marshals track fugitives, protect the federal courts and juries, run the national witness protection program and transport federal prisoners. Nationwide, it employs more than 3,330 agents.
In declining to provide details about the incident this morning, city police officials said they are focusing on the injured marshals and officer.
"Our hearts and thoughts and prayers go out to the families right now," Isom said.
Police summoned a SWAT team to the residence after shots were fired because they weren't sure who still was inside the brick flat.
Sannita Boles, who said she is Carlos Boles' sister, said her three children, 8, 13 and 15, were staying with her brother and his girlfriend at the home.
Police and the marshals waited for the children to leave the home this morning, then headed into the home to arrest her brother, Sannita Boles said. She said she didn't know why, but that her brother had been in and out of jail.
Family members said Carlos Boles, 36, had two children — a boy, 5, and a girl, 2.
At one point, when police still thought someone might be alive inside, Sannita Boles collapsed and lay sobbing on the grass at a park across the street. Police and her friends helped her up and asked everyone to move back so they wouldn't be in the line of fire.
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