According to numerous Twitter users posting using the hashtag #AntonioMartin, an 18-year old black man under the same name was shot and killed by police early Wednesday at a Mobil gas station in Berkeley, MO, a St. Louis suburb not far from Ferguson.

Martin's mother, who is on the scene, is shown by social media postings to burst into tears when she learns that her son has died.

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