CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The family of an 18-year-old man suspected of killing a St. Louis County police officer has issued a statement calling the teen a “lost soul.”
Trenton Forster was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 33-year-old officer Blake Snyder while Snyder was responding to a report of a disturbance. Forster’s hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
The Forster family issued a statement Friday apologizing to Snyder’s family, and saying they can’t believe Trenton Forster “would do something like this.”
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The suspect’s father, Bill Forster, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://j.mp/2e279A0 ) his son has struggled with drug addiction since shortly after he sustained a head injury in car accident a few years ago.
Bill Forster also says he put his son in drug rehab programs that didn’t seem to work.
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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, https://www.stltoday.com
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