California police 'kill boy carrying pellet gun'

[King LeBron]

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Washington (AFP) - Californian police have shot dead a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle, police and media reports said.

The child, identified as Andy Lopez and described in media reports as popular in his school, was walking down a street on Tuesday when sheriff's deputies saw him carrying what appeared to be a rifle.

They ordered him to drop it and "and at some point immediately thereafter, the deputies fired several rounds from their handguns at the subject striking him several times," according to a statement from the Sonoma county sheriff's office.

"Once the scene was secured deputies learned that the rifle was a replica of an assault weapon."

Read more here: California police 'kill boy carrying pellet gun'

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The incident took place in Santa Rosa, northern California, on Tuesday, a day after a 12-year-old boy killed a teacher at a Nevada middle school with a gun he then used to take his own life.

Lieutenant Paul Henry, who is investigating the incident for the Santa Rosa police department, said two Sonoma county sheriff's deputies had been patrolling a street near the boy's home on Tuesday when they saw him walking with what appeared to be an assault weapon in his left hand.

One of the deputies, who did not immediately realise that the person he was seeing from behind was a child, shouted twice: "Put down the gun," according to Henry and a police statement.

"The subject turned toward the deputies, and as he was doing that the barrel of the weapon was rising toward the deputies," Henry said. The deputy then fired rounds, killing the boy.


The pellet gun that police say Andy Lopez was carrying when police shot him dead. Photograph: AP/Sonoma county sheriff's office

from a different source, read more here: California police shoot and kill boy carrying replica of assault rifle | World news | theguardian.com
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Oh crap! How and why did this happen?

[Passport]

shows the behavior and reaction when law enforcers are already a terrified bunch of gun totters themselves...

[King LeBron]

Either way, as a law enforcer, you need to give somebody the benefit of the doubt.

Terrified law enforcers? Better assign them the desk jobs! smh

[iron_cross]

i thought bb replica guns have orange tips? aren't they suppose to have them?

[Passport]

i thought bb replica guns have orange tips? aren't they suppose to have them?

by law, before airsoft toys can be sold, they must have those orange tips at the muzzle. it is illegal to remove them.. but.. boys will be boys.. they want to have fun.. how much fun is it to play toy guns with orange tipped muzzles?

[7DMM]

let the cop bashing begin! can't wait to hear more from the "experts".

[potterboy]

dili mani complete na report.

They ordered him to drop it and "and at some point immediately thereafter, the deputies fired several rounds from their handguns at the subject striking him several times," according to a statement from the Sonoma county sheriff's office.

seriously? there must have been something that triggered their actions. kinsa man pulisa tawn mobira dayon2x ug trese anyos nga naay armas konohay?

[domzgnrlover86]

mura jud diayg tinuod ilang pagtuo atong armasa diay....

[King LeBron]

posting more info from a different source, please see above

[rockrhyan1982]

Dont mess with US policemen,they dont give a **** about lives.they will shoot you when thier instinct knows theyre in danger even not.i feel sad for the family of the boy.rip!

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Dont mess with US policemen,they dont give a **** about lives.they will shoot you when thier instinct knows theyre in danger even not.i feel sad for the family of the boy.rip!