17-year-old dies after being shot by police at Missouri park

GRANDVIEW, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a 17-year-old who was shot by police in Missouri after confronting officers with a gun has died.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Lantz Stephenson Jr., of Grandview, was shot about 6:45 a.m. Sunday at a park in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview, and died at a hospital.

The patrol said in a post on Twitter that an “apparent suicidal” person was at the park with a gun. Highway patrol spokesman Sgt. Andrew Bell says the person called 911 and said he had a gun and wanted to confront officers.

Bell says he approached the Grandview officers aggressively before two officers fired.

No officers were injured.