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ByJimSuhr The Associated Press ST. LOUIS An autopsy showed that an 18-year-old who was shot and killed by an officer helping serve a search warrant in a vio- lence-plagued neighbor- hood died from a single wound in the back, police said Friday. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson cautioned that the location of Man- sur Ball-Bey's wound nei- ther confirms nor disproves two officers' accounts that Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them before they shot at him Wednesday. Dotson said Thursday that a sto- len handgun linked to Ball- Bey — with one round in the chamber and 13 more in the magazine — was found at the scene. "Just because he was shot in the back doesn't mean he was running away," Dotson told the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. "What I do know is that two officers were in- volved and fired shots, but I don't know exactly where they were standing yet and I won't know until I get their statements." Authorities haven't said exactly where in the back Ball-Bay was shot. Police haven't released the full au- topsy or toxicology tests yet, and have not explained why they don't yet have state- ments from the officers. Dotson has pledged a thorough internal investi- gation by the police's year- old Force Investigation Unit. Without specifying how long that "transparent" inquiry may take, police said its find- ings will be forwarded to St. Louis city and federal pros- ecutors for review. "We have a policy that's strong, a process that's strong," he told the AP. "There's strong third-party review, and we want to make everything above re- proach." POLICE SHOOTING Autopsy: Suspect was shot in back By Bernard Condon and Matthew Craft The Associated Press NEWYORK Growing con- cerns about a slowdown in China shook markets around the world on Fri- day, driving the U.S. stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years. The rout started in Asia and quickly spread to Europe, battering ma- jor markets in Germany and France. In the U.S., the selling started early and never let up. Inves- tors ditched beaten-down oil companies, as well as Netflix, Apple and other technology darlings. Oil plunged below $40 for the first time since the fi- nancial crisis, and gov- ernment bonds rallied as investors raced into hid- ing spots. By the time it was over, the Standard and Poor's 500 index had lost 5.8 per- cent for the week, its worst weekly slump since 2011. Markets began falling last week after China an- nounced a surprise de- valuation of its currency, the yuan. Investors have interpreted China's move as a sign that flagging growth in world's sec- ond-largest economy could be worse than gov- ernment reports suggest. On Friday, they got more bad news: A private sur- vey showed another drop in manufacturing on the mainland. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 64.84 points, or 3.2 percent, to close at 1,970.89. The Dow Jones indus- trial average fell 530.94 points, or 3.1 percent, to 16,459.75. The Nasdaq slid 171.45 points, or 3.5 percent, to 4,706.04. WALL STREET Fears over slowdown hammer US stocks By Eric Talmadge and Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday de- clared his front-line troops in a "quasi-state of war" and ordered them to pre- pare for battle a day after the most serious confron- tation between the rivals in years. South Korea's military on Thursday fired doz- ens of artillery rounds across the border in re- sponse to what Seoul said were North Korean ar- tillery strikes meant to back up a threat to attack loudspeakers broadcast- ing anti-Pyongyang pro- paganda. The spike in tensions prompted the U.S. and South Korea to briefly halt an annual military exer- cise that began this week, U.S. defense officials said Friday. North Korea had criticized the drills, call- ing them a preparation for invasion, although the U.S. and South Korea in- sist they are defensive in nature. The North's declara- tion Friday is similar to its other warlike rhetoric in recent years, including repeated threats to reduce Seoul to a "sea of fire," and the huge numbers of sol- diers and military equip- ment already stationed along the border mean the area is always essen- tially in a "quasi-state of war." Still, the North's ap- parent willingness to test Seoul with military strikes and its recent warning of further action raise wor- ries because South Korea has vowed to hit back with overwhelming strength should North Korea at- tack again. Pyongyang says it did not fire anything at the South, a claim Seoul dis- missed as nonsense. Kim Jong Un ordered his troops to "enter a war- time state" and be fully ready for any military op- erations starting Friday evening, according to a re- port in Pyongyang's offi- cial Korean Central News Agency. The North has also given Seoul a deadline of Saturday evening to re- move border loudspeakers that, after a lull of 11 years, have started broadcast- ing anti-Pyongyang pro- paganda. Failure, Pyong- yang says, will result in fur- ther military action. Seoul has vowed to continue the broadcasts. ARTILLERY FIRE No rt h Kor ea wa rn s of w ar w it h So ut h am id t en si on s By Greg Keller The Associated Press PARIS A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding two people before being subdued by two American passengers, officials said. French Interior Minis- ter Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking in Arras in north- ern France where the sus- pected was detained, said one of the Americans was hospitalized with serious wounds. Their names were not immediately released. Philippe Lorthiois, an of- ficial with the Alliance po- lice union, said on i-Tele that the two Americans were soldiers. In Washington, the Pen- tagon said it "can only con- firm that one U.S. military member was injured in the incident. The injury is not life-threatening." Contrary to early re- ports, Lorthiois said the at- tacker did not fire his auto- matic weapon but wounded one man with a handgun and the other with a blade of some kind. Investigators from France's special anti-ter- ror police are leading the investigation, a spokes- woman for the Paris pros- ecutor's office said. "As always where an act that could be terrorist in nature is involved, the greatest care and the great- est precision will be used," Cazeneuve said. The suspect is a 26-year- old Moroccan, according to Sliman Hamzi, an official with the police union Alli- ance, who spoke on French television i-Tele. Cazeneuve said the two Americans "were particu- larlycourageousandshowed great bravery in very diffi- cultcircumstances"andthat "without their sangfroid we could have been confronted with a terrible drama." Lorthiois said the gun- man shot one victim and injured another with a bladed weapon. A third person, French actor Jean- Hugues Anglade, suffered a minor injury while activat- ing the train's emergency alarm, Lorthiois said. The attack took place at 1545 GMT while the Thalys train was passing through Belgium, according to a statement from the of- fice President Francois Hollande. Hollande said he's spoken with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and the two lead- ers pledged to cooperate closely on the investigation. A young woman said on i-Tele that she was in the carriage next to the one which the gunman struck. "I wouldn't call it a fu- sillade, because even in the next wagon we didn't hear any shots," said Margaux, who declined to give her last name. She said passen- gers remained "relatively calm," and some showed no concern until police boarded the train. Europe's major rail sta- tions, such as Paris' Gare du Nord and Brussels' Gare du Midi, are patrolled by soldiers armed with rifles, but passengers can board most high-speed trains without passing through metal detectors or having their bags searched. French authorities have been on heightened alert since Islamic extremist at- tacks in January left 20 people dead, including the three attackers. FRANCE Official: 2 Americans subdued train gunman THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A Thalys train of French national railway operator, SNCF, stands at the main train station in Arras, northern France, a er a gunman opened fire, injuring three people, on Friday. | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2015 10 A