‘He was so young’: Family identifies 17-year-old who died after being shot at by O’Fallon, Mo. police


Family and friends are mourning the death of a 17-year-old who was fatally shot over the weekend after an encounter with police.

Kiara Neal said officers approached her brother, Christopher “Chris” Jones, as he slept in a car late Sunday morning in an O’Fallon neighborhood.

Police said they walked up to the Honda Accord around 11 a.m. and “loudly knocked” on the window, spotting a handgun in the front seat.


Christopher Jones, 17, is shown in a photo provided by Terrae Wilson. Jones died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022 after O'Fallon, Missouri police shot at a car he was driving. Police say he backed the car up into a police vehicle.

The driver then put the car in reverse and struck a police car. Officers then fired at the Honda, which moved forward until coming to rest blocks away. Paramedics transferred Jones to a hospital, where he later died.

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