- Tyree King, 13, shot dead in Columbus by officers who were arresting him
- Police officers were responding to a 911 call reporting an armed robbery
- The robbery victim in Columbus said one of the three suspects had a gun
- Officers chased suspects down an alley where King pulled out the BB gun
- The officer who is suspected of pulling the trigger is under investigation
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.
The armed robbery victim said that one of them had a gun.
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.
'One officer shot and struck the suspect multiple times.'
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 additional suspects were being sought.
The officers and the other suspect were not injured.
Police said upon further investigation it was determined that King' gun was actually a BB gun with an attached laser sight.
Police said the incident and the officers are under investigation.
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.
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
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.
Although he survived, Charles was placed in an induced coma for three weeks.
#1: misterwhite To: cranky (#0)
Cut down early in a life of crime. Who knows how many lives were saved and the amount of misery spared society.
Typical behavior though. A pack of feral youth forms and gives the gun to the juvenile, knowing if they're caught the "child" will be treated lightly.
Unless he points it at the police.
misterwhite posted on 2016-09-15 09:06:44 Reply Private Reply
#2: Justified To: cranky (#0)
Justified posted on 2016-09-15 09:50:00 Reply Private Reply
#3: cranky To: Justified (#2)
Boys will be boys, I guess.
But how or why parents let them run loose with bb or pellet guns is beyond me.
cranky posted on 2016-09-15 10:16:46 Reply Private Reply
#4: Logsplitter To: cranky (#3)
Logsplitter posted on 2016-09-15 10:29:33 Reply Private Reply
#5: misterwhite To: cranky (#3)
Perhaps the gun was loaned to him by the two older gang bangers to use in the robbery. I'm guessing they told him it was real.
Why else would he turn and pull the gun on the cops chasing him? A dumb move with a real gun. Suicidal with a pellet gun.
misterwhite posted on 2016-09-15 10:39:12 Reply Private Reply
#6: Stoner To: misterwhite (#5)
Stoner posted on 2016-09-15 10:56:24 Reply Private Reply
#7: cranky To: Logsplitter (#4)
Parents, legal guardians, the state, whoever.
Someone had a legal responsibility to care for that kid.
cranky posted on 2016-09-15 10:59:08 Reply Private Reply
#8: cranky To: misterwhite (#5)
Why was he there in the first place?
I'm okay with what happened in this situation. But what if he survived it and went on to bigger and better things?
The federal government has spent trillions of dollars and created countless bureaucracies and bureaucrats just so this crap won't happen.
I want my money back.
cranky posted on 2016-09-15 11:06:53 Reply Private Reply
#9: misterwhite To: Stoner (#6)
That will probably depend on the race of the cop. Which demonstrates the sorry state of race relations that I even type that sentence.
But probably not. Using Cleveland as a guide, it appears that the penalty for shooting a black kid pointing a pellet gun at police is $6 million.
Who said the little shit would never amount to anything?
misterwhite posted on 2016-09-15 11:07:46 Reply Private Reply
#10: misterwhite To: cranky (#8)
He had just committed armed robbery. At 13.
"But what if he survived it and went on to bigger and better things?"
You mean what if he turned his life around and made something of himself? He had that opportunity. Always did. He rejected it. He turned to crime. He f**ked up.
Where was mom and dad? Who were his friends? Who did he look up to?
misterwhite posted on 2016-09-15 11:16:36 Reply Private Reply
#11: ConservingFreedom To: cranky (#0)
Darwin Award?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-09-15 14:21:41 Reply Private Reply
#12: Justified To: cranky (#3)
But hey at least the parents can sue and get millions because the politicians are to afraid to say the truth. The officer will be hung out to dry, again, for doing their job of cleaning up the streets!
Justified posted on 2016-09-15 17:24:12 Reply Private Reply