LF: Boy, 13, is shot dead by police after he pulled a BB gun from his waistband while being arrested

Title: Boy, 13, is shot dead by police after he pulled a BB gun from his waistband while being arrested
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... hot-police-pulling-BB-gun.html
Published: Sep 15, 2016
Author: Gareth Davies
Post Date: 2016-09-15 08:41:05 by cranky
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A 13-year-old boy has been shot dead by police after he pulled a BB gun from his waistband while being arrested.

Police were called to a report of an armed robbery in Columbus where they attempted to arrest two of three suspects who had run into an alleyway.

As officers attempted to take Tyree King into custody, he was shot multiple times after he pulled out the pellet gun.

Response: Officers were on scene to deal with a robbery in Columbus when the fatal shooting occurred

Investigation: Officers confer at the scene where Tyree King was fatally wounded by a veteran officer on Wednesday night

Police in Ohio said officers received a report of an armed robbery involving multiple suspects.

When they arrived on the scene, they said the victim told them that a group of people approached him and demanded money.

Police said the officers saw three males matching the descriptions of the suspects and tried to speak with them, when two of the suspects fled on foot.

In a statement today, a spokesman said: 'Officers followed the males to the alley and attempted to take them into custody when one suspect pulled a gun from his waistband.

The suspect, later identified as 13-year-old Tyree King, was taken to a children's hospital, where he died.

The male with King was identified, interviewed and released pending further investigation.

Police said upon further investigation it was determined that King' gun was actually a BB gun with an attached laser sight.

Tyree King, 13, shot dead in Columbus by officers who were arresting him

The shooting comes just months after the family of Tamir Rice was told it was set to receive $6million from the city of Cleveland after lawyers settled a wrongful death suit over the 12-year-old's fatal shooting by a police officer.

He was shot to death close to his family home in Cleveland in November 2014 while playing outside with a pellet gun.

Police had received a call from a man drinking at a bus stop nearby who told call-takers that there was a boy waving a gun around and pointing it at people.

The man added that the gun was unlikely to be real and the person involved was a juvenile, but the call-taker never passed that information to dispatchers and he was shot dead by junior patrolman Timothy Loehmann, 26.

The shooting raised questions about how police treat black people, spurred protests around Cleveland and helped spark the creation of a state police standards board to lay out rules about use of deadly force in law enforcement.

A Brooklyn teenager who was shot at 16 times by police was unarmed and surrendering when cops opened fire, his lawyers said in a new lawsuit last month.

In December 2013 police said Keston Charles pointed a gun at officers in Brownsville and then fled the scene but it turned out the weapon was a BB gun.

He was shot in the buttocks while fleeing and again in the side and chest after he had dropped the gun and raised his hands above his head.