“As officers confronted the suspect, there was an altercation during which at least one officer discharged his weapon”, the police statement said.
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Police say Taylor, a graduate of Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Rodriguez said police arrived to find that the suspect had used a vehicle to crash into the showroom through the dealership’s front glass.
The officer involved will be placed on administrative leave, which is mandated during deadly force incidents.
Christian Taylor via Twitter Christian Taylor, 19, of Arlington, Texas, was shot by Arlington Police Officer Brad Miller as he reportedly tried to burglarize a auto dealership. He had been working under the supervision of a training officer. Security in the country was increased all over the country for the black suspects. “The Arlington Police Department is saddened by this loss of life and will provide the community a clear and transparent investigation”, an Arlington Police Department press release stated.
Friends and family described Taylor as a fun-loving kid with a bright future and cast doubt on any criminal wrongdoing. “Nuh-uh. Something doesn’t sound right”, Fuller told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Arlington police did not say if Taylor appeared to be armed before he was killed.
He said the dealership does have surveillance video but, as of Friday afternoon, investigators had not located any video capturing the shooting.
ASU head coach Will Wagner wasn’t made available for comment but posted a Tweet that said, “Heart is hurting.” And they say he was shot and killed after an “altercation” with police.
The Star-Telegram reported that court records it reviewed showed Taylor was sentenced to six months of deferred adjudication last December on a drug charge stemming from a September 2013 traffic stop in which police reported Taylor was found with 11 hydrocodone tablets not prescribed to him.
Arlington police do not wear body-worn cameras but a pilot program was in the works, the department said. He successfully completed probation in June and his case was dismissed July 14.
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A little less than a year ago, only days after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, which quickly became a national story and began changing the media’s perspective towards police abuse and killings, Taylor tweeted that he did not feel protected by police.
