George Bush III Identified As Deceased St. Louis Cop Shooter

By Bob Owens

A 19-year-old serial criminal known to police in the St. Louis area has been identified as the suspect who ambushed a St. Louis police sergeant, and who was later shot and killed in a shootout with police.

A man accused of shooting a St. Louis City police sergeant Sunday night in an ‘ambush’ attack was killed in a shootout overnight, according to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson.

Sources identified the 19-year-old suspect fatally shot early Monday morning as George Bush III, of the 7000 block of Lansdown Avenue in St. Louis.

The 46-year-old sergeant was inside his vehicle at a stop light near Hampton and Pernod when he was shot twice in the face around 7 p.m. According to Chief Dotson, Bush III pulled up next to the officer and fired two shots into the squad car, shattering the glass window.

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Just after midnight, police tracked the suspect, who was inside the woman’s vehicle, in the area of Smiley and Leola in south St. Louis.

When police pulled behind the vehicle, the woman pulled over, at which time the suspect got out and ran through an alley, then a yard and onto Smiley. While running, the suspect spotted an unmarked police car with …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms