Armed boy is shot by police after ‘falsely telling them he had murdered three people and opening fire in cemetery’
cops at a cemetery after police say he called them falsely claiming he had murdered three people.
"If they kill me, I'll have to kill them," the teenager allegedly warned to responding cops during a 911 phone call placed on Thursday afternoon.
The responding officers found the boy armed with a pistol that was loaded with an extended magazine, cops said. They featured some snapshots of the shirt-sleeved youth pointing such a weapon in various directions.Officers took positions to form a perimeter around the cemetery to contain him and shield “several uninvolved bystanders” walking around the cemetery at the time."They prepared to make verbal contact with the suspect and negotiate his surrender," according to the summary of the incident."As the officers were doing this, the suspect fired an additional shot from the gun.
“Although officers gave numerous commands to drop the gun the suspect failed to comply,” the cops added.After refusing to put the pistol down, the cops say he pointed the weapon at them.It’s unclear how many shots were fired by either the suspect or police.Most read in News
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