更新于：2026年4月14日 / 美国东部时间上午11:18 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
周一公布的随身摄像头录像显示，一名圣路易斯警察在一名17岁青少年逃跑时，朝其后脑勺开枪致其死亡，这与警方此前称该青少年曾举枪指向警员的说法相矛盾。
圣路易斯警察局发言人米奇·麦科伊在承认这段新录像的声明中表示：“我们认识到，使用致命武力对所有相关人员和社区来说都是一件艰难的事。我们承诺尽可能保持透明，即便在动态且迅速演变的局势中也是如此。”
埃梅肖恩·威尔金斯家人的律师阿尔·沃特金斯是在针对警察局的联邦诉讼的证据开示程序中获取这段录像的。沃特金斯表示，其团队曾尝试通过信息公开申请获取该录像，但未能成功。
“他们就这段录像的问题阻挠了一年多，”沃特金斯告诉美联社，“我们不得不提起联邦诉讼才能拿到它。这算不上透明，也谈不上公正。事实上，这是不负责任的。”
沃特金斯在一份声明中表示，圣路易斯乃至整个密苏里州的居民，以及威尔金斯的家属，“理应得到比这更好的对待”。
“全国都在关注。事实上，全世界都在审视圣路易斯。当前美国正处于一个脆弱时期，这需要相关负责人负责任地采取行动，不得拖延，也不要耍手段，”沃特金斯说道，他还补充道，“时间至关重要”，“我们的孩子的生命正处于危险之中”。
威尔金斯的家人表示，当局至今仍未就事件经过给出完整解释。
“我还在等待，我需要一个说法，”威尔金斯的母亲莎娜·威尔金斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司下属电视台KMOV。她对该媒体表示，她的儿子“本该还好好活着”。
威尔金斯于2024年6月遭枪击身亡，就在他过完17岁生日两周后。沃特金斯称，威尔金斯没有任何犯罪前科，且是黑人。
警方称，事件起因是侦探试图拦下一辆被报失窃的SUV。警方表示，双方进行了短暂追逐；沃特金斯将其描述为低速追逐，称当时SUV的时速仅约10英里。
追逐结束后，威尔金斯弃车步行逃跑，两名警员紧随其后。诉讼文件显示，其中一名警员手持泰瑟枪，另一名警员持有枪械。
录像显示，持枪警员朝青少年大喊让他趴下，同时举起了枪械。可以听到该警员让青少年放下枪。青少年仍在继续奔跑，随后警员开了枪。
诉讼文件称，四颗子弹中的一颗击中了青少年的后脑勺，导致其死亡。青少年的口袋里确实有一把枪，但已经被拆解成多个零件，无法发射。
录像并未显示青少年手中持有枪支，也没有朝警员举枪的画面。
“当时没有对公众构成威胁，你们看看录像就会发现，他也没有任何隐秘的动作，”沃特金斯说道。
警方在录像公布后的周一承认，“事件发生后 immediately 有第三方向调查人员提供的信息，与实际情况以及最初向社区通报的内容并不一致”。
警方称，事件发生后他们已经更新了内部规程，“以便更好地让圣路易斯警察局能够提供准确且及时的信息”。如今，警局随身摄像头部门的一名成员会“直接赶赴”现场，这样调查指挥官就能在听取公众提供的详细证词之前先查看录像。
“在本案中，如果能在事件发生后的最初时刻就查看随身摄像头录像，本可以提供比当时更多的清晰信息，”声明中写道。
莎娜·威尔金斯，埃梅肖恩·威尔金斯的母亲，2024年6月18日在圣路易斯哀悼，此前一名圣路易斯警察开枪打死了她的儿子。克里斯琴·古登/《圣路易斯邮报》/美联社
圣路易斯仍留有2014年的枪击事件伤疤：当时一名白人警察在圣路易斯郊区弗格森枪杀了18岁黑人平民迈克尔·布朗，布朗当时并未携带武器。多名目击者称布朗曾举手投降。涉事弗格森警员被认定无过错并辞职，布朗的死亡引发了持续数月的抗议活动。
沃特金斯表示，公众曾被保证会有所改变。但现在他称，枪杀威尔金斯的警员仍被安排在带薪办公室岗位上。他质疑为何调查进程如此缓慢。
“家属需要一个说法，而能给出说法的唯一途径就是通过公开透明的司法程序，”沃特金斯说道。
圣路易斯巡回检察官办公室表示，已于10月收到警方的调查报告。但声明称，该办公室还会自行“对证据和法律进行审查，以确定是否存在追究刑事责任的依据”。
“检察官办公室致力于尽快审查每一起案件，同时确保所有可用证据和法律考量都得到细致彻底的评估，”声明中写道。
Bodycam video shows St. Louis police officer shooting teen in back of head
Updated on: April 14, 2026 / 11:18 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer fatally shooting a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at officers.
“We recognize that the use of deadly force is difficult for everyone involved and for the community,” said St. Louis Police Department spokesperson Mitch McCoy in a statement acknowledging the new video. “We are committed to being as transparent as possible, even in dynamic and rapidly evolving situations.”
Al Watkins, an attorney for the family of Emeshyon Wilkins, obtained the video as part of the discovery process in a federal lawsuit against the police department. Watkins said his office tried and failed to get the video through a records request.
“They fought that video issue for over a year,” Watkins told The Associated Press. “We had to file a federal lawsuit to get it. That’s not transparent. That’s not integrity. Indeed, it’s irresponsible.”
In a statement, Watkins said residents of St. Louis and broader Missouri, as well as Wilkins’ family members, “deserve better than this.”
“The nation is watching. Indeed, the world is looking at St. Louis. It is a vulnerable time in the U.S., one which requires adults in the room to act responsibly and without delay or gamesmanship,” Watkins said, adding that “time is of the essence” and “the lives of our children are at stake.”
Wilkins’ family said authorities still have not provided a full explanation as to what happened.
“I’m still waiting, I need answers,” Wilkins’ mother, Shaina Wilkins, told CBS affiliate KMOV. She told the outlet that her son “should still be here.”
Wilkins was shot and killed in June 2024, just two weeks after he turned 17. He had no prior criminal history, Watkins said. Wilkins was Black.
Police said it all started when detectives attempted to stop an SUV that was reported stolen. Police said there was a brief pursuit; Watkins described it as a slow-speed chase. He said the SUV was only going around 10 mph.
The pursuit ended with Wilkins fleeing the vehicle on foot, with two officers in pursuit. One officer held a taser; another a firearm, the suit says.
The video shows the officer armed with a gun yelling at the teen to get on the ground as he raises the firearm. The officer can be heard telling the teen to drop a gun. The teen keeps running, and then the officer fires.
One of the four bullets struck the teen in the back of the head, killing him, the suit says. In the teen’s pocket was a firearm, but it was disassembled, in multiple pieces, and incapable of being fired, the suit says.
The video didn’t show the teen holding the firearm in his hand or pointing it at the officer.
“There was no threat to the public, and you look at the video, and there were no furtive movements,” Watkins said.
Police acknowledged Monday, following the release of the video, that “information provided by a third-party to investigators in the immediate aftermath of the incident was not consistent with the actual events or what was initially shared with the community.”
The department said it has updated its internal protocols since the shooting “to better position [St. Louis Police] to provide accurate and timely information.” Now, a member of the department’s body-worn camera unit “responds directly” to the scene so that investigating commanders can review footage before receiving detailed accounts from the public.
“In this case, an earlier review of body-worn camera footage would have provided greater clarity than what was available in the initial moments following the incident,” the statement says.
Shaina Wilkins, the mother of Emeshyon Wilkins, grieves on June 18, 2024, in St. Louis, after a St. Louis police officer shot and killed her son. Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP
St. Louis still bears the scars from the 2014 fatal shooting by a white police officer of 18-year-old Michael Brown — who was Black and unarmed — in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up in surrender. The Ferguson officer was cleared of wrongdoing and resigned, and Brown’s death led to months of protests.
Watkins said the public was assured change would happen. But now he said the police officer who killed Wilkins was placed on desk duty, with pay. He questioned why the process is taking so long.
“The family needs answers, and the only way answers can be given is if there is justice that is open and transparent,” Watkins said.
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office said it received the police investigative report in October. But the statement says the office also completes its own “review of the evidence and law to determine whether there is a basis for criminal liability.”
“The CAO is committed to reviewing each matter as expeditiously as possible while ensuring that all available evidence and legal considerations are carefully and thoroughly evaluated,” the statement says.
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