A rookie police officer shot and killed a 14-year-old boy on a street early Sunday after he refused to drop his gun and pointed it at officers, authorities said.
Shaaliver Douse died of a single gunshot to his jaw after the confrontation in the Melrose section of the Bronx.
Two officers with the New York Police Department were on foot patrol when they heard gunfire at around 3 a.m. The officers responded to the scene and found the boy with a 9mm handgun firing shots at a fleeing man, authorities said.
The officers identified themselves as police and ordered him to drop his weapon, authorities said.
When he pointed his gun at them, one of the officers shot him, police said. Douse was pronounced dead at the scene.
The two officers had joined the department in January.
Douse had been in trouble with the law before.
He was charged in May with attempted murder after a 15-year-old boy was shot in a Bronx neighborhood where Douse lived. That shooting took place 2 miles from where Douse was later shot to death.
Douse was also charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing in connection to the incident.
The prosecution of Douse was then deferred, said Steven Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. The office had insufficient evidence to proceed, and the victim was unable to identify his shooter, he said.
The case was still open, Reed said.
(AP)
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17 Responses
Was he black?
here we go again! The mother is gonna think up some stupid reason why it wasn’t justified to shoot her son, or shes gonna start talking about what a hard life he had ect.
and then we’re going to have protest led by the Reverend Al Sharpton about the racism against black people
One less future thug on the streets.
Here we go again Michael Bloomberg:- Please please step up your all out war against guns in the United States of America.
Let this be your mission & legacy, as well as your resolution as we head into Ellul.
when a frum guy was t by cops when he attacked them witha hammer the comments where against the cops I see it all depends who the perp is
No. 2: The ho-hum tone of your comment implies that you have failed to see – or don’t care about – the tragedy in this story. The tragedy is that a 14-year-old boy was killed because the adults (if any) in his life failed to keep from him a deadly weapon, or to teach him that he should not brandish it in public and should obey the police. I am assuming that the account of the incident is accurate. It would have been no less a tragedy if the boy had killed a police officer or an innocent bystander. You anticipate that his mother (whom you refer to at “the mother”) “is gonna think up some stupid reason ….” You evidently have no sympathy for a mother who has lost a child, no matter how much the child, or she, contributed to the circumstances of his death. Get yourself some chesed, evem of the deceased is not one of us.
Yes he was black. Read the article on CBS.
we just saved millions of $$ on a court case, jail cell, etc.. b”h
To #2
Yeh, just give Sharpton a few days to get his bearings. He’s still trying to get Zimmerman knocked off.
To #1,
The question is, was the officer who shot him, also black?
Thank you NYPD for ridding another criminal from our midst.
the boy was playing a deadly game; the officers were justified in killing him.
#1
Why is that of any relevance?
Get ready to see Sharpton and Jackson’s true colors as they ignore this shooting just like all the shootings in Chicago because it doesn’t prove their point.
Re comments 3, 10 and 14: Why don’t you wait until Messrs. Sharpton and/or Jackson say or do anything before decrying what they have not yet done?
And, No. 10, how can you be so sure that the deceased was a future thug, not merely immature, unschooled or undisciplined?
Nfgo3, kol ha’haase rachaman be’mokom achzari, sofo lehasos achzari be’mokom rachaman — anybody who makes himself merciful in a place where cruelty is called for, at the end will become cruel in a place where mercy is called for. It is not always just “chesed, chesed, chesed…”
15, immature, unschooled or undisciplined is opening up a classroom door, shutting the lights and running away. It’s not walking around with a gun and already being arrested for attempted murder.