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ST. LOUIS — Police found three dead at a north city house on Friday morning, and killed a man they said was a suspect in their shootings.

The standoff started early Friday.

The department was alerted to the shooting by its ShotSpotter system, which detects and locates gunfire across the city, police said.

Officers arrived at the house just after 4 a.m. in the 5100 block of Wells Avenue, near Sherman Park and Kingshighway.

They found a man shot on the front porch, police said. He died there. 

Police then sought a search warrant. Officers surrounded the house as they waited.

At around 7 a.m., a man inside the house came out, talked to cops, and went back inside, police said.

Moments later, he came out of the house again, this time armed with a rifle, police said.

He fired at officers, police said, and one St. Louis police officer and one ATF agent fired back at the man.

He then went back inside the house.

Before 9 a.m., SWAT officers entered the house.

Inside, they found the suspect dead near the front door, a woman dead in the living room and man dead in the basement, police said.

The police officer who shot at the man is 28 with three years of service.

Authorities said no officers appeared to be hurt. 

Eddie Washington, 28, was shot after wrestling with Overland police who confronted him on the parking lot of a Shell gas station.
St. Louis County police shot and killed Dr. Aleksandr Lanis, 38, when he pulled a gun on them during an arrest at his home, authorities said.
St. Louis 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 he led officers on a car chase and drove the car into an officer. 
Kobie Davis, 25, was killed by a Leadington, Missouri, police officer hired to work security for The Wheelhouse at 1000 Spruce Street.

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