A man has been found guilty in the murder of David Dorn, a retired St. Louis, Missouri, police captain who died amid riots in 2020.
Dorn, 77, was shot and killed in the early hours of June 2, 2020, outside his friend’s pawn shop in north St. Louis after he arrived there in response to an alarm.
The evening was filled with violence and looting amid protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody on May 25, 2020.
Dorn, who retired from St. Louis police in 2007 after having served 38 years, had approached the pawn shop and fired warning shots to ward off looters who were ransacking the business before he was fatally shot….