It was a rough night in the St. Louis area last night, as an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black male during a chase.  The black male was not named, and there were few details about the event overnight. That didn’t stop tensions from going sky-high; protestors took to the streets once again, punching and kicking police cars, breaking windows, and chanting.

Teyonna Myers, 23, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper that she was the cousin of the suspect and that he was unarmed when he was killed.

“He had a sandwich in his hand, and they thought it was a gun. It’s like Michael Brown all over again,” she told the paper.

Reuters reported that the off-duty cop—who was wearing his uniform at the time—was working for a private security firm and had approached three people.  The three fled when he walked up to them; police say that the 18-year-old man turned and fired three shots at the off-duty officer as he was being chased.  The cop fired 17 shots at the fleeing man, and police also say they recovered a weapon at the scene.

The Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis is about 11 miles south of Ferguson.