Some said the veteran officer who shot Tyre (teye-REE’) King should face homicide charges. “Dr. Diaz describes Tyre as a “small-framed adolescent boy, standing 5’0″ and weighing less than 100 lbs”. The bullets wounded the teen Wednesday night in the left temple, the left collarbone and the left flank, Diaz found.
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Authorities say the fatal police shooting of King, a 13-year-old Columbus, Ohio boy who officers said pulled a BB gun from his waistband that looked like a real weapon will be investigated thoroughly to determine if charges are warranted.
The family’s lawyers, like the roughly 100 protesters at City Hall later in the day, said the Columbus Police Department and the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office should be removed from the case.
In a statement today, the King family asks that media cameras be kept out of the service.
Demonstrators are calling for an independent investigation of the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old OH boy and urging Columbus police to spend more on violence prevention programs.
Police can not comment on Diaz’s examination pending the release of the official coroner’s report, said police spokesman, Sgt. The coroner’s office says that the official autopsy report and cause of death have not yet been completed. The official findings of the county coroner have yet to be released.
Columbus police arrested Braxton on a robbery charge Saturday.
“I was in the situation”, Braxton told The Dispatch.
King was shot by police last week after they were called to the scene of an armed robbery. Investigators are still searching for two or more other suspects. “Something has to be done”, said Stacey Little, a 31-year-old Columbus resident and a member of the group People’s Justice Project. Rich Weiner. The investigation is ongoing.
She rejected immediate comparisons to the November 2014 fatal shooting by Cleveland police of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who also had a realistic-looking toy gun on him at the time.
Thomas said he was not commenting on whether the shooting was justified until more facts were available. “That’s why we do an investigation”.
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The Associated Press obtained Officer Bryan Mason’s personnel file through a public records request. The head of the local police union says Mason did what he had to do in that situation.
