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Old October 24, 2013, 11:24 AM   #1
Kimio
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13 year old boy tragically shot by California Police

Truly a sad story, and my heart goes out to the boys parents. Apparently the boy was walking to his friends house to return a replica AK47 pellet gun that he had borrowed, police arrived (I'm assuming someone called police fearing he was carrying the real deal, from another article the pellet gun did not have the mandatory orange cap from the looks of it) and commanded the boy to put down the weapon.

Supposably when he was turning towards the officers he was raising the rifle, and the LEO's opened fire, fearing for their safety.

This is why we must stress safety I think, be it with a toy or a real firearm, there is a reason those orange caps are on these kinds of toys. I don't know enough about what happened during the encounter to really judge whom was in the wrong to be honest, it can go both ways in this case I think.

Links to several different news agencies covering this particular case.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/justic...led/index.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_1...e-father-says/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4152819.html
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