“And there were three or four officers standing around”. He was pronounced dead not long afterward.
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Tyre King was shot in a confrontation in an alley on Wednesday night after he and another male ran from officers investigating a reported armed robbery involving $10 in Columbus.
A police officer shot and killed a 13-year-old robbery suspect after the boy pulled a BB gun from his waistband in Columbus, Ohio, police said.
At a news conference Kim Jacobs, the chief of police, displayed a picture of what she… A nine-year-veteran, Mason is white, and was recently transferred to the precinct.
“The family is obviously distraught by the murder of Tyre”, attorney Chanda L. Brown said in the statement, which described Tyre as a typical 13-year-old boy who was active in football, soccer, hockey and gymnastics.
Activist Anthony Edgecombe (center) speaks about the death of Tyre King at a vigil hosted by the Ohio State Coalition for Black Liberation on September 15. They provided no further information about him. Ginther says this an example of why police will be required to wear body cameras early next year. While some officers in the OH capital wore such cameras during a brief pilot program this summer, that trial is over, according to Jacobs.
It all started with reports of an armed robbery. The victim told officers that a group of males had demanded money, threatening him with a gun, police said.
“There were witnesses, we believe, to the armed robbery and there were people in the vicinity of the shooting, but we don’t know what they were able to discern”, she said.
The department claims that the officers chased the teens into an alley and were attempting to place them under arrest when King pulled the BB gun from his waistband. “One officer shot and struck the suspect multiple times”. The victim, an eighth-grader named Tyre King, died later from his injuries at the hospital. Mason was placed on temporary administrative duty, pending an internal investigation.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that investigators concluded Mason acted within policy in that case. Rich Weiner said, according to CNN affiliate WSYX-TV. ” Columbus police released a sketch of what King’s BB gun looked like, pointing out similarities between it and a real handgun”. “There are allegations that have been made regarding his actions, and those allegations can not be taken as factual until a thorough, unbiased investigation has taken place”, he said, adding, “There are multiple witnesses that we have been made aware of that do not corroborate the current narrative”. Ginther asked. “An eighth-grader involved in very, very risky conduct in one of our neighborhoods”.
Officers say Tyree King was a suspect in a robbery and had a gun; later revealed to be a BB gun.
Braxton and other officers were unharmed, it added.
Walton says Tyre had a slight build and was perhaps even on the small side for his age.
Officer statements were still being gathered on Thursday, Jacobs said.
A grand jury will ultimately decide whether the officer should face criminal charges, Jacobs said.
Police said the young male who was with King was interviewed and released pending further investigation.
The other suspect who fled from the officers, 19-year-old Demetrius Braxton, admitted that they had in fact robbed someone prior to the incident.
The story’s headline has been corrected to show the shooting was in Columbus, not Cleveland. In addition to Columbus, a city with 850,000 residents, there have been high-profile police shootings in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio’s other biggest cities. Columbus police confirmed that Mason was involved in another fatal shooting in 2012. “This is the last thing any police officer wants”.
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In Columbus, police shootings are generally deemed to be justified. Police responded to the area on a report of an armed robbery and spotted three males that matched descriptions of the alleged robbers. In announcing the decision, Timothy McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said that the boy was reaching for the toy in his waistband and described it as “indistinguishable” from a real gun.
