The teen was pronounced dead later that night at a local hospital.
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A 13-year-old African American boy was shot dead on Wednesday night by a Caucasian police officer in Ohio.
In a story September 15 about the 13-year-old boy fatally shot by a white officer, The Associated Press erroneously attributed the source of a quote about the boy. Columbus police don’t use body cameras.
A white OH policeman responding to reports of an armed robbery fatally shot a black 13-year-old boy after he pulled out what appeared to be a weapon that was later determined to be a BB gun, police said on Thursday.
The second male who ran into the alley was interviewed by police and released.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old who said he was the boy’s friend told a newspaper that Tyre King had a real-looking BB gun, was out to rob someone and ran from police.
Sean Walton, the lawyer, also said Tyre did not have a violent criminal history and that the boy’s family believes that being involved in an armed robbery would be “so out of character” for him.
A person on the call identified as the victim of the robbery said the alleged holdup was over $10.
The King family, in a statement said that it retained to investigate the shooting as “numerous witness accounts are in direct conflict with the officer’s version of events”. “What is now out there might not be true”.
Nineteen-year-old Demetrius Braxton tells The Columbus Dispatch he had run away with Tyre and was with him when the shooting occurred.
Mr Braxton said police told them to get down.
Police reviewing evidence from the scene determined the boy’s firearm was actually a BB gun with an attached laser sight.
“The only thing similar in nature is the age, race and outcome”, says Columbus police spokesman Sgt.
Soon afterward, officers found three males, including King, matching the descriptions of the suspects, police said.
The police chased the pair into an alley and tried to take them into custody.
Police claim Tyre King pulled the gun from his waistband and that’s what prompted officer Bryan Mason to respond by shooting him. She says the official manner of death is pending.
Dozens attended a vigil Thursday night near the shooting, including members of Tyre King’s youth football team.
Community members light candles during a vigil for 13-year-old Tyre King Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio.
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.
In a December 2012 case, Mason shot and killed a man who was holding another man at gunpoint.
Mason has been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, per department protocol, Jacobs says.
“Our officers carry a gun that looks practically identical to this weapon”, said Kim Jacobs, Chief of Police.
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