This crap pisses me off. IMO I could care less about the punk and if he dropped the gun. Die and good riddance. As for the mom, I hope she gets hit by a train tomorrow. How many times has your son been arressted? The media shouldn't even be airing this story unless it was to mock them. Freaking inner city scumbags.
I'm sure the kids and mom are lying and even if they aren't who cares.
Mother of 14-year-old shot by officer says her son had dropped his gunPolice say robbery suspect refused order to disarm, then turned toward officer
The mother of a 14-year-old boy shot Wednesday night by city police as authorities say he attempted to rob a University of Maryland medical student at gunpoint said her son had dropped his gun before the officer discharged his weapon.
Police are not identifying the 14-year-old, but the mother said the boy's name is Charles Henry Kelly III and that he was following the officer's orders at the time he was shot. Shawn Stokes, the boy's mother, said she got an account of what happened from two other boys at the scene who are friends with her son.
A city Police Department spokesman confirmed that there were other boys present at the time of the shooting who have not been charged.
According to police, the teen was robbing the student, holding a gun to his neck, when he refused to follow an officer's order to drop the weapon and turned toward the officer.
Stokes said that she asked her hospitalized son whether he let go of his weapon before taking a bullet to his midsection, and the boy, who could not speak, nodded in agreement. The weapon turned out to be a BB pistol.
"My son was wrong for putting the gun up against that student, but he dropped the gun," Stokes said. "And I want to see [what] the school's cameras have. My son has got to be on the cameras."
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department stands by its account of what happened. Police say a Western District officer, whose name was not released, was in uniform and driving a marked police car to police headquarters about 7:50 p.m. Wednesday when he saw an armed robbery in progress in the 700 block of W. Lexington St. near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Police say when the officer, a member of the department for three years, neared the robbery scene, the UM student yelled out that the boy had a gun. The robbery target, a third-year medical student, later told police he was riding his bike when the youth told him to stop and placed a gun to his neck.
When the boy failed to heed the officer's verbal warning to drop the weapon and turned toward him, the officer fired two shots, hitting the youth at least once in the stomach, according to police, who interviewed the medical student about the shooting.
"Quite frankly, a third-year med student isn't going to lie," Guglielmi said. "The officer observed the gun and fired a defensive shot. Typically, it's been our experience that people don't lie about the fact that they have had a gun pointed to their head or neck."
Stokes said her son is an eighth-grader at Diggs-Johnson Middle School. She said he has possessed several BB guns in the past, but the one he had Wednesday night was borrowed from a friend. Stokes said her son had been arrested twice before, the last time for possessing marijuana.
Kelly remains in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, and his mother said he is scheduled to undergo an additional surgery on his stomach Friday.
"He's being punished. ... He didn't take nothing from that student. He didn't shoot him, he didn't kill him," she said.
Guglielmi said the officer fired two shots.
"We're looking at this as an act of heroism," he said. "At that hour of the night, he didn't know if that was a real gun or not. He potentially saved that victim's life."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...story?track=rssToo bad she didn't follow through.