Friday afternoon, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged 36-year-old Cortez Darrell Sipes with two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action, two counts of resisting arrest and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Court documents state Sipes is a convicted felon.
A spokesperson for the police department said the officers were conducting a car stop investigation on a Ford F-150 believed to be involved in a robbery when the shooting happened.
The driver of the Ford drove off, leading officers on a chase, but crashed in the courtyard of the Soulard Farmers Market.
The suspect then got out of the vehicle and shot at officers, striking two of them, according to authorities. Officers fired back and shot the suspect in the ankle.
One officer, a 38-year-old man, was shot in the torso, was treated and released. The second officer, a 24-year-old man, was shot in the torso and arm and taken to a hospital.
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