San Diego Police Shoot, Kill, 15-Year-Old Boy

by Guest Mon May 08, 2017 6:50 am

A 15-year-old boy called 911 to ask San Diego police to check on his well being early Saturday morning. When officers arrived on the scene to find him holding a BB gun, they shot the teen dead. The boy, whose name has not been released, was shot and killed by police outside San Diego’s Torrey Pines High School around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, police say. Officers said he aimed a gun at them. But the weapon was later discovered to be a BB gun, and the 911 call had been placed by the boy, himself.

At 3:27 Saturday morning, police received a call about a boy loitering outside Torrey Pines High School in northern San Diego. The caller, who spoke in the third person, asked police to check on the boy, Mike Holden, the San Diego Police Department’s acting homicide captain said in a Saturday statement to press. The caller described the boy as unarmed, Holden said.

Two officers, one of whom was a Juvenile Services officer, responded to the call and found the boy standing in the high school parking lot. But when they approached him, he reportedly drew a BB gun. “As the officers exited the patrol car, the subject pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed it directly at one of the officers,” Holden said. Believing the gun to be a lethal weapon, both officers opened fire on the boy, striking him multiple times.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/07/san-diego-police-shoot-kill-15-year-old-boy

by 'Wolfie Mon May 08, 2017 9:11 am

Sounds like yet another instance of "suicide by cop"...

And at only 15 years of age..

by The Devil, You Know Mon May 08, 2017 10:29 am

a tragic accident it would seem, but are police supposed to wait until they are shot before stopping a threat. it is not unheard of for 15 year olds to have real guns in america.

the moral here is dont point a gun, real or otherwise, at a policeman

by Guest Mon May 08, 2017 10:42 am

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Sounds like yet another instance of "suicide by cop"...

And at only 15 years of age..

Agreed

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