A 13-year old boy is shot by police in OH after he pulled a gun from his waistband.
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The veteran officer shot and killed Tyre King after chasing robbery suspects when Tyre allegedly pulled a BB gun out of his waistband.
“Tyree King’s death is a tragedy and today we mourn the loss of this 13 year-old child”.
Our news partner WBNS-TV in Columbus reports police were dispatched to a reported armed robbery on the city’s east side around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday.
“Our officers carry a gun that looks practically identical to this weapon”, she said.
The lawyer for Tyree’s family has also called for a fair and independent investigation into the death. Police records show that in 2012 he shot and killed a man who was holding another person at gunpoint.
“Their proliferation in public is unsafe for the same reasons traditional firearms are, but also for an additional reason: they endanger kids who carry them in instances where someone (like a police officer) mistakes it for a different type of weapon”, Shearer said.
Authorities in OH are investigating a white police officer who shot and killed a black 13-year-old boy during a chase, after the teen’s weapon turned out to be a BB gun.
The officers followed the two to an alleyway “and attempted to take them into custody when one suspect pulled a gun from his waistband”, it said.
Asked about the comparisons being made by members of the public, Police Chief Jacobs said: “I don’t know how they would know that”.
They said when they arrived on the scene, the victim told them that they had been approached by a group of people wanting money and one of them had a gun.
Mason has shot and killed someone while on duty before.
The Columbus police released a statement on the shooting saying, “As in all police involved shootings, the involved officer (s) will receive mandated psychological support counseling”. Rich Weiner said: “The only thing similar in nature is the age, race and outcome”. Columbus police are early in their investigation but say the differences in the Wednesday night shooting of Tyree King and the Cleveland case are stark. One of the officers fired and hit the suspect multiple times.
The station reports after police interviewed the victim of the armed robbery, officers approached three men nearby that matched the suspect description given by the victim.
Tyre’s killing – his death prompted two hashtags when, in a final indignity, the media at first spelled his name wrong – came the same day as the announcement of a $1.9 million wrongful death settlement with the family of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail cell in July 2015 after a traffic stop.
The teenager was shot several times after he pulled out a BB gun, which fires shot pellets, during a confrontation with police in an alley. When police tried to speak to them, unsurprisingly, they ran away.
Toy guns or reproductions can often appear indistinguishable from real weapons, and in shootings that involve such fake weapons, officers often say they could not tell the guns were not real.
Sirens are heard moments later as police search for the suspects. The department says it awards Silver Crosses to officers who demonstrate acts of courage in unsafe situations.
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One of the most scrutinized cases, and one of the most similar to the one in Columbus, also took place in OH: the 2014 death of Tamir Rice, 12, who was playing with a pellet gun in a park in Cleveland.
