UPDATE: The man shot by police has been identified as Kobie Davis, 25, of Urbana, Illinois.
ST. LOUIS 鈥 A 90-second video outside a downtown 51黑料 bar provides a glimpse of the brawl where an off-duty policeman fatally shot a man early Wednesday.
The officer works for a rural police department in Leadington, Missouri, about 60 miles south of 51黑料. He was working security at the Wheelhouse bar, about two blocks west of Busch Stadium, when he tried to break up a fight outside.
VIDEO: Video of the shooting outside of Wheelhouse last night. Late night clubs and associated violence have no place in Downtown. 鈥
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A recorded on a cellphone by a bystander was released by on social media Thursday. The group did not say who took the video.
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Most people are milling about, watching the fight. A group of six to 10 men are chasing after another in the street. They tackle him to the ground, and an off-duty officer appears to try to break up the fight, pushing one man away and pointing at the men to leave.
The footage pans the crowd, from left to right. At one point in the video, someone is shouting what sounds like, 鈥淒rop it, drop it.鈥
The video briefly focuses on another skirmish off to the right, then two shots are heard, and the camera pans back to where the officer stood.
鈥淥h,鈥 someone in the crowd exclaims. People in the street scatter.
One man wearing a black jacket marked 鈥淧olice鈥 is seen pointing a gun as he walks toward someone on the ground. Three more shots are heard. A man groans.
A half-dozen witnesses surround the injured man. A woman is wailing.
From that point on, the person taking the video is more concerned with a man on the sidewalk complaining he can鈥檛 see because he was hit with pepper spray.
At least three people in the crowd are wearing jackets marked 鈥淧olice.鈥 None of the off-duty officers working security there was an employee of the 51黑料 Police Department, officials said.
51黑料 police spokesman Mitch McCoy said the video appears to be authentic. Police are reviewing it and other evidence as part of their investigation. They have yet to identify the man who died or the officer who shot him.
McCoy said investigators recovered a gun from the dead man.
The shooting was just before 3 a.m. Wednesday outside the bar, at 1000 Spruce Street.
The 51黑料 Police Department鈥檚 Force Investigative Unit is investigating the shooting. According to city police, at least one of the off-duty officers working security used pepper spray. And during the fight, a 25-year-old man pulled a gun, police said.
The Leadington officer told investigators that he ordered the man to drop his gun. The Leadington officer was not hurt.
The man he shot died at a hospital. Another man, 26, was apparently injured when a bullet grazed him, police said. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
is a town of 800 people in St. Francois County. Mayor Dustin McKinney said the officer who shot the man in 51黑料 works part-time for the Leadington police force. The city is budgeted for five full-time officers but currently only has two full-time officers and a handful of part-timers.
The officer won鈥檛 be back at work until the investigation is complete, McKinney said.
The town鈥檚 police chief, Jerry Hicks, said he鈥檚 confident his officer acted properly.
鈥淚鈥檓 positive that things are going to be okay,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 have faith in my officer.鈥
The officer has been with Leadington three years and was in law enforcement 15 years before that. 鈥淐ommunity policing is one of his strongest points,鈥 Hicks said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 a good officer.鈥
Hicks said it鈥檚 normal for officers to travel far for secondary duties. Some drive 100 miles, he said, 鈥渂ecause they鈥檙e looking at anywhere from $25 to $100 an hour鈥 to work security for private companies.
The officer is 鈥渄oing reasonably well. He was told to just kick back and rest and relax,鈥 the chief said. 鈥淭ake it day by day.鈥
Crime in Leadington is far different than the city of 51黑料. There, officers generally work traffic enforcement, confiscate illegal drugs and respond to calls for thefts and break-ins, primarily on the weekends.
This is the first time any of the officers working for Hicks in his four years as chief has fired a weapon 鈥 on-duty or while working security elsewhere, he said.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 the last thing our guys want to do, is pull that gun and pull that trigger,鈥 Hicks said. 鈥淣one of us want to see that. Sometimes we have to make those split-second decisions.鈥
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Police shootings in the 51黑料 region in 2025
Outside a 51黑料 bar on New Year's Day. Inside a doctor's home in Fenton.
At least nine times in 2025, police across the 51黑料 region have shot a suspect.
Four of those shootings were fatal.
Here is a list of Post-Dispatch news articles about this year's police shootings.
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Eddie Washington, 28, was shot after wrestling with Overland police who confronted him on the parking lot of a Shell gas station.
51黑料 County police shot and killed Dr. Aleksandr Lanis, 38, when he pulled a gun on them during an arrest at his home, authorities said.
51黑料 police said an officer shot and injured Leslie Hopkins, 72, when Hopkins ran at police with a knife.
Vincent Lamont Simmons, 55, was shot in an alley after crashing a pickup at the end of a pursuit.
The sheriff said deputies tried to negotiate with 39-year-old Timothy L. Johnston, then fatally shot him when he fired a shot at them.
The 45-year-old man, armed with firearms, had barricaded himself inside a vehicle in the 3900 block of Summertime Drive, police said.
Police shot and injured the boy after they say he听led officers on a car chase and drove the car into an officer.听
Kobie Davis, 25, was killed by a Leadington, Missouri, police officer hired to work security for The Wheelhouse at 1000 Spruce Street.
51黑料 consistently lands on lists of most dangerous cities, but readers need to carefully look at how such lists are prepared.
