He says they did, but then Tyre got up and ran and was shot, the paper reported Friday.
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A person on the call identified as the victim of the robbery said the alleged holdup was over $10. Sirens were heard moments later as police searched for the suspects.
A police officer shot and killed a 13-year-old robbery suspect in Ohio’s capital after the boy, who is black, pulled a BB gun out of his waistband, police said, a shooting that city leaders said would be investigated thoroughly to determine whether charges are warranted.
Authorities are rejecting comparisons of King to 12-year-old African-American Tamir Rice, who also had a toy gun when he was killed by a white cop in Cleveland in 2014.
Police on Thursday said the teen who has been identified as Tyree King was shot multiple times. “We got down but my friend (King) got up and ran”. Two of the men took off running and the officers chased after them down an alley.
She said the BB gun that the boy, Tyree King, allegedly had “looks practically identical” to the type of handgun that Columbus police carry, Jacobs said.
A coroner isn’t immediately releasing autopsy details for a 13-year-old OH boy who police say was shot by an officer after pulling a real-looking BB gun from his waistband.
King is one of 14 children killed by police this year, according to The Guardian. Officers said the armed man had refused orders to drop his weapon.
Mason has previously been involved in several shootings while in the line of duty.
A message seeking comment was left with the head of the police union representing Mason.
Demetrius Braxton, 19, who was with King when the police encountered them, told The Columbus Dispatch the BB gun looked like a real gun. He will be on administrative leave for about a week. He will see a psychologist before returning to work, she said. Several police officers were at the school Thursday, and counselors were available to talk to students.
An attorney for Tyre’s family, Sean Walton, called for an independent investigation. Walton would not discuss any previous dealings Tyre had with police but said the boy had no violent criminal history. In 2012, while responding to a 911 call at a Columbus home, Mason fatally shot an armed man, said Weiner, the police spokesman.
Authorities said it was unclear whether the shooting was caught on surveillance or mobile phone video.
Mayor Andrew Ginther said the incident was a “call to action for our entire community”. It also came in the wake of over 2,000 police shootings since Ferguson that have raised many questions about police conduct, accountability, racism and militarization, but resulted in nearly no findings of wrongdoing.
“We as a community need to come to grips with the fact, with such easy access to guns, whether they’re firearms or replicas, there’s something wrong in this country and it’s bringing its epidemic to our city streets”. Earlier this week, the City of Columbus agreed to a $780,000 settlement in a case involving the accidental shooting of a 4-year-old girl by Columbus police.
In the statement, King’s family said “numerous witness accounts are in direct conflict with the officer’s version of events”. “We robbed somebody, the people I was with”, Braxton said, according to the Dispatch. The weapon found at the scene was later determined to be a BB gun.
The officer who shot King, Bryan Mason, a nine-year veteran of the force, will be placed on leave for at least a week during an investigation, Jacobs said. They provided no further information about him. However, when they attempted to speak with them, two of the males ran away, police said in a statement. He said the boy was trying to either hand it over or show police it wasn’t real, but the officers had no way of knowing that.
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There was no chase in Tamir’s case.
