Police said that’s when 13-year-old Tyree King pulled out a gun, and one officer fired his weapon, hitting the boy repeatedly.
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Police are still investigating, and have interviewed and released the other male with King, “pending further investigation”. Officers said the armed man refused orders to drop his weapon and was shot.
Chief Kim Jacobs said Thursday that investigators don’t yet have enough facts about the Wednesday night death of 13-year-old Tyre King to know how it relates to other cases. He also had a slight build and, if anything, was on the small side for his age, the attorney said.
On Aug. 13, a confrontation between police and protestors turned violent in Milwaukee in the north central USA state of Wisconsin, after a police officer shot and killed an armed 23-year-old man.
On July 7, a 25-year-old sniper named Micah Johnson ambushed and killed five police officers and wounded seven others and two civilians in downtown Dallas, Texas. The police say that “additional suspects are being sought”.
The public is comparing Tyre’s death to the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy in 2014 in the state while Columbus police rejected the comparison, saying that “the only thing similar in nature is the age, race and outcome”.
An officer responding to a reported armed robbery shot and killed a 13-year-old boy when the teen pulled a firearm from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun but looked “practically identical” to the weapon that police use, authorities said Thursday.
Democratic Mayor Andrew Ginther appeared to choke up as he called for the community to come together to help ensure children remain safe. “As you can see, it looks like a firearm that could kill you”.
The attorneys for the boy’s family said they wouldn’t comment on whether he had a gun or tried to pull one as facts are gathered.
A Brooklyn teenager who was shot at 16 times by police was unarmed and surrendering when cops opened fire, his lawyers said in a new lawsuit last month.
“There is something wrong in this country, and it is bringing its epidemic to our city streets”, Ginther said.
Loehmann, who’d been called there after a 911 caller reported seeing someone with a pistol that might have been fake, said he thought the boy appeared older and had a real gun.
Officers eventually saw three people matching the alleged robbers’ descriptions, and two of them – including King – ran, police said.
A local resident, Chris Naderer, tells The Columbus Dispatch that he heard someone knock down a gate in his backyard and looked out to see an officer chasing two young men into an alley. They provided no further information about him.
“Why is it that a 13-year-old would have almost an exact replica of a police firearm on him in our neighborhoods”, he said at the press conference.
In Tamir’s case, a 911 caller reported someone pointing a gun at people near a recreation center.
The boy was later identified as Tyree King. A caller reported someone pointing a gun at people near a recreation center, and a rookie officer shot Tamir nearly immediately after his police cruiser stopped nearby.
Jacobs urged calm, promising to investigate the case “thoroughly”, and said that a grand jury would decide whether criminal charges should be filed against the police officer who shot the boy dead.
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