The fatal shooting of a black teenager by a US police officer has sparked angry protests in his Missouri neighbourhood.
Michael Brown, 18, was killed outside an apartment building in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis.
Hundreds of residents gathered at the scene and a temporary memorial was set up.
The crowd confronted officers, with some shouting obscenities and threats including "kill the police", but there were no reports of injuries.
Later, there was also a rally outside the headquarters of the police department, where people chanted "we want answers" and "no justice.
Police said Brown was shot after an incident last Tuesday involving two people and an officer.
The victim's mother Desiree Harris One person allegedly pushed the policeman back into his patrol car and assaulted him.
St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said there was a struggle over the officers' weapon and one shot was fired in the car.
He added the officer then got out of his vehicle, shot at "a subject" and the man suffered more than a couple gunshots, but "not many more than that."
Brown's mother Leslie McSpadden said of her son: "He don't bother nobody. My son just turned 18 and graduated from high school and he don't bother nobody."
The teenager's grandmother Desiree Harris, who had been expecting him to visit her later that day, saw him running near her home when she passed him in her car.
Mourners gather in the suburb of Ferguson Minutes later, she found his body on the street after hearing a commotion outside the apartment complex.
She said: "He was running this way. When I got up there, my grandson was lying on the pavement. I asked the police what happened. They didn't tell me nothing."
Esther Haywood, president of the St Louis NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People), appealed for calm.
"Violence only creates more problems and I hope that the community will settle down tonight and tomorrow," she said.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson told the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper that the officer involved has been placed on paid administrative leave.
"We are hoping for calm and for people to give us a chance to conduct a thorough investigation," Mr Jackson said.
St Louis County Police Department is investigating the shooting at the request of the local department.
John Gaskin, a member of the St Louis County NAACP civil rights group, said the FBI should become involved "to protect the integrity of the investigation".
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