Derion Brooks
Name: Derion Brooks
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 08/10/2001
Location: N Kingshighway and Cote Brilliante Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri, 63113
County: St. Louis City
Agency: St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Six-year-old Derion Brooks was killed after a vehicle fleeing police struck his mother's car. Terrye Martin and Antonio G. Robinson had reportedly just robbed a man of $38 and his shoes at gunpoint at a North Kingshighway bus stop, then fled in a 1988 Buick LeSabre. Witnesses flagged down a patrol car and pointed out the Buick. Police pursued the car on Kingshighway, through a residential area, then back onto Kingshighway for six blocks until Martin ran a red light and broadsided a Toyota Camry. Derion died after he was thrown from the car and landed headfirst against a tree. His brothers, Tyrice Dobbins, 2, sustained minor injuries and Eric Brooks, 9, was comatose for several weeks. Martin was sentenced to 25 years for murder, robbery, armed criminal action and assault.
Unique ID: 1136
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