Several members of Tyre’s youth football team attended in team jerseys.
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Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs shows a picture of the replica of the BB gun that police say 13-year-old Tyree King was holding during a shooting on September 14, 2016.
“I know that some of the officers at the scene were very disturbed about the fact that here we are, out at this time of the night chasing armed 13-year-olds”, she said.
A lawyer for Tyre’s family called for a fair and independent investigation into his death.
“It is a technology we believe can really help continue to improve and increase safety here in Columbus, and that’s why it’s such a high priority for us”, said Mayor Ginther.
Police initially identified the boy as Tyree, but his family says it’s spelled Tyre.
Police said officers were responding to a report of an armed robbery involving multiple suspects.
Sirens are heard moments later as police search for the suspects. Then an unidentified witness told a dispatcher: “He’s shooting him!”
No one else was injured. At the time, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the decision by saying that Rice had reached for the gun, which he called “indistinguishable” from a real gun. Investigators cleared Mason of any wrongdoing in that case, according to the paper. However, Ginther called the cameras “important” and said the goal is to start giving them to officers at the start of next year.
Because the officer was white and the boy black, the case has brought inevitable comparisons with the 2014 fatal shooting in Cleveland of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Sean Walton declined to discuss any previous interaction Tyree had with police, but he emphasized that Tyree didn’t have any violent criminal history.
Police cornered them in an alley when Tyre allegedly pulled out a gun.
“Why is it that a 13-year-old would have almost an exact replica of a police firearm on him in our neighborhoods – an eighth-grader involved in very, very unsafe conduct in one of our neighborhoods?”
Hours after the news conference, police in Columbus also posted an image online showing what they said was a replica of the gun.
A Columbus, Ohio boy pulled a BB gun from his waistband and was shot to death by police responding to a call.
Speaking at a news conference, the mayor, the police chief and other officials offered few details about what led to the death Wednesday night of the teenager, Tyree King.
The man who was robbed said $10 was taken from him and described the gun as a pistol.
The incident began just before 7 p.m. CDT when police responded to reports of an armed robbery.
There was no chase in Tamir’s case.
There is no confirmation yet on whether or not the officers were wearing body cameras.
“The only thing similar in nature is the age, race and outcome”, said Columbus police spokesman Sgt. The third suspect in the robbery has not been located. The victim said one of them had a gun. King died at a hospital shortly thereafter.
The 2012 shooting was reviewed by a grand jury, but Mason remained on the police force and ultimately faced no charges.
Police in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday shot and killed a 13-year-old black boy who was carrying a BB gun, authorities said. One police officer fired at Tyree, hitting him multiple times, police told the AP.
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.
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Officers in the area saw three men on Hoffman Street matching the description and tried to talk to them. King and another young man ran and officers followed them into the alley, where they say King pulled out a weapon.
