ST. LOUIS: Officials scrambled to head off renewed anger Wednesday after an armed black teenager was shot dead by a white officer in a St Louis suburb, insisting the use of force was justified.

The killing took place late Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, near Ferguson, Missouri -- ground zero of a protest movement over police killings of black men -- and triggered immediate demonstrations.

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