A 13-year-old boy was shot by a police officer in upstate New York, United States after the teen was armed with what the officials said appeared to be a gun.
The video of the incident released on Saturday shows the boy being tackled to the ground after he ran from officers and pointed what the police later determined was a replica handgun at them.
The police said that the teen was killed sometime after 10:00 pm (local time) on Friday (Jun 28) in the New York city of Utica when three officers stopped two young people in connection with an armed robbery investigation.
The Utica police in a news release, ‘While the officers were questioning the teens, one of them fled on foot’. The police said that the youths, both 13, matched the descriptions of the robbery suspects and were spotted in the same area and around the same time the next day.
As per the footage, the victim had fled after the police and said that they needed to pat them down to make sure they didn’t have any weapons in their possession.
The teen later identified as Nyah Mway, 13, ran and the police spotted what appeared to be a handgun, the Utica Police Chief Mark Williams said in a press conference on Saturday morning.
‘A Utica police officer ultimately discharged his firearm once, striking the male, during a ground struggle’, he added. He was frequently interrupted by the outraged community members.
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