St. Cloud Police officers shot and killed a man in his 20s early Sunday morning they say has two-dozen arrests on his record who pulled a gun on them after a short chase.
At a press conference later in the morning, St. Cloud Police Chief Doug Goerke said officers responded to the incident behind the Starling Chevrolet car lot on East U.S. Highway 192 around 2:45 a.m., after an alarm company observed subjects “loitering and acting suspiciously” around the back of a building.
Arriving officers observed a black male suspect in the passenger side of a vehicle, Goerke said, and he “quickly fled” after officers commanded him to show his hands. He ran toward the neighboring Wawa convenience store at 192 and Old Hickory Tree Road, then over a fence into an adjoining yard…