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3 Officers Are Wounded in St. Louis ST. LOUIS — Two deputy federal marshals and a St. Louis police officer were wounded in a shootout early Tuesday while trying to serve an arrest warrant at a house on the South Side. The man named in the warrant was pronounced dead at the scene. One marshal was shot in the head and was in jimmy choo shoes critical condition, William C. Sibert, the United States marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri, said at a news conference. The other was shot in the ankle and was in fair condition after surgery. The police officer sustained a graze wound to his face and neck, a Police Department spokeswoman said, and he was treated and released from a hospital. The authorities declined to name the wounded officers. “We still have family members that are trying to make their way here,” Mr. Sibert said. A spokeswoman for the Marshals Service identified the gunman as Carlos Boles, 35. The spokeswoman, Lynzey Donahue, said the warrant for Mr. Boles contained charges relating to the assault of a law enforcement officer and the possession of a controlled substance. Court documents show that Mr. Boles, whose criminal record stretches back to 1993, has pleaded guilty to five felonies. Shortly before 7 a.m., officials said, two officers from the Police Department and eight from the Marshals Service were trying to serve the warrant when they discovered several children inside the house. After escorting the children outside, the officers began searching for Mr. Boles, who officials said opened fire when they encountered him. After the shooting, the police cordoned off the area power balance black as a SWAT team cleared the rest of the house. Within minutes, a crowd had gathered in a park across the street, where people were trading rumors in a drizzling rain and venting anger over what they called a pointless police shooting. “They could have just let one of his family members go in and talk to him,” said Tony Johnson, 22. “I don’t blame anyone for the tension right now.” A man who identified himself as Mr. Boles’s brother but would not give his name said he was frustrated by the lack of information. “We don’t know what’s up,” the man said after holding back a bereaved woman. “All we know is three police were shot, and they’re pulling a body out the back.” The shooting comes amid a violent wave that has seen at least 16 federal, state and local officers killed by gunfire so far this year, a 23 percent increase over this time last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit group. That number includes the death of Derek Hotsinpiller, 24, a deputy United States marshal. He was killed last month in West Virginia while trying to serve a warrant for a man wanted on charges related to cocaine trafficking. Two other deputies were wounded in the confrontation. At the news conference, Chief Don Isom of the St. Louis Police Department said the investigation of Tuesday’s shooting was continuing and that details remained “sketchy.” “Right now,” Chief Isom said, “we’re just power balance yellow praying for the officers who are injured and hope that everything works out well.”