High school student shot and killed by police
Posted April 17th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comA 17-year-old in Fresno, California was shot and killed as a police officer tried to defend himself from the teen, who had clubbed him with a baseball bat and was charging at him again. While we understand the cop felt threatened since the teenager was the size of a large adult — 6 feet tall, 250 pounds — couldn’t they have tasered him or something?
The officer fired at the student shortly before noon, after the Roosevelt High School sophomore allegedly came from behind and struck the officer in the head with a crude wooden baseball bat, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
The officer fell down dazed, and reached for the gun in his hip holster, but the clip fell out.
As the student came at him a second time, the officer grabbed a secondary weapon — a semiautomatic handgun he carried as backup — from his ankle holster and fired one or two rounds, Dyer said. The student reportedly died within a few minutes.

