The child had been in the news yesterday, meanwhile, in the latest video to go viral in the case: speaking from his hospital bed, the five-year-old says that police shot him intentionally.
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Police in the U.S. say they believe an officer fired a round that hit and wounded the 5-year-old son of a woman whom police shot dead during a standoff.
The tactical officer is not being identified due to an “unprecedented number of threats against police, including threats and actions against specific officers and officials”, according to a statement from the Baltimore County Police Department.
Kodi claimed that moments before the shooting, “my mother said back off, so the police said please back up, and then they started shooting, ” adding, “and then the police just took me… they saw me run and they hurt my arm”.
A department news release on Thursday said Jim Johnson also cited the recent killings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a factor in his decision.
Gaines’ cousin asked if it was on objective, and he said, “yes”.
As for the child’s allegation that police aimed at him, Armacost said she could not address that statement.
Baltimore County Police have confirmed that the injuries sustained by Korryn Gaines’ son, Kodi, were from police fire.
Gaines, 23, was fatally shot by police earlier this week after she aimed her shotgun at the officer.
“They trying to kill us”, the boy says. When Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, original police testimony did not match the details that later came out.
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After Sandra Bland’s death was initially ruled a suicide in 2015, the case was later reopened to be treated “as it would be in a murder investigation”.
