Police shoot teen dead at school
12.01.2012
Police shot dead a teen at his school because they thought he was holding a real gun.
The teen, 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez, walked into a classroom at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, Texas, last Thursday and punched another boy on the nose. He then went into the hallway and took out a pellet gun. After he refused to lower the gun, which looked like a real gun, two police officers shot at him three times and killed him.
“He had plenty of opportunities to lower the weapon and he didn't want to,” says the town’s police chief Orlando Rodriguez. Jaime’s grandmother Norma Leticia Navarro told reporters, “Jaime was not a bad kid, and I wish I could ask him why he did that, why did you put yourself in that position? I'm not saying he was perfect or an angel but he was a very giving person.”
The two officers who shot Jaime have now been suspended while officials investigate what happened.
The teen, 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez, walked into a classroom at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, Texas, last Thursday and punched another boy on the nose. He then went into the hallway and took out a pellet gun. After he refused to lower the gun, which looked like a real gun, two police officers shot at him three times and killed him.
“He had plenty of opportunities to lower the weapon and he didn't want to,” says the town’s police chief Orlando Rodriguez. Jaime’s grandmother Norma Leticia Navarro told reporters, “Jaime was not a bad kid, and I wish I could ask him why he did that, why did you put yourself in that position? I'm not saying he was perfect or an angel but he was a very giving person.”
The two officers who shot Jaime have now been suspended while officials investigate what happened.
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