ST. LOUIS COUNTY — The man shot by an Overland police officer after a traffic stop Sunday has been charged with resisting arrest.
Prosecutors on Monday charged 28-year-old Eddie Washington with the felony. His bond was set at $5,000 cash.
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Washington lives in the 11800 block of Cato Drive in unincorporated North County.
Washington was shot about 7:45 a.m. Sunday after officers confronted him on the parking lot of a gas station in the 10700 block of Page Avenue in Overland, police said.
According to court documents, a license-plate reader alerted officers to a car Washington was driving. The car was wanted in connection with an assault on a law enforcement officer in Caseyville, police said.
Overland police tried to detain Washington but he ran from officers, 51ºÚÁÏ County police Detective Robert Bates said in court documents.
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Washington wrestled with an officer on the ground, Bates said.
The probable cause statement by Bates does not mention that Washington was shot by the Overland officer. But 51ºÚÁÏ County police earlier in the day Monday described that Washington had been shot while resisting arrest.
Washington was treated at a hospital. Police have not disclosed where he was hit or how badly he was injured.
The officer was also taken to a hospital, though authorities have not described his injuries. The officer, 25, has been an officer one year.
Bates said investigators learned later that Washington was wanted for a parole violation.
Washington did not have an attorney listed in online court records.
Police shootings in the 51ºÚÁÏ region in 2025
Outside a 51ºÚÁÏ bar on New Year's Day. Inside a doctor's home in Fenton.
At least ten times in 2025, police across the 51ºÚÁÏ 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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The police say he pointed a gun at an officer. The man was shot at least one time, and his condition was not released.
Police found three people dead at a home in the 5100 block of Wells Avenue on Friday morning. Officers also killed a man in a shootout who is …
Eddie Washington, 28, was shot after wrestling with Overland police who confronted him on the parking lot of a Shell gas station.
51ºÚÁÏ County police shot and killed Dr. Aleksandr Lanis, 38, when he pulled a gun on them during an arrest at his home, authorities said.
51ºÚÁÏ 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 heÌýled officers on a car chase and drove the car into an officer.Ìý
Kobie Davis, 25, was killed by a Leadington, Missouri, police officer hired to work security for The Wheelhouse at 1000 Spruce Street.
Post-Dispatch photographers capture hundreds of images each week; here are just some photos from February 2025. Video edited by Jenna Jones.
