Inside the final minutes before Andy Lopez's toy-gun death

Moments before 13-year-old Andy Lopez was fatally shot by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy who mistook his replica AK-47 pellet gun for a real rifle, a man in a truck drove by the boy and felt a surge of worry.

"Hey. Throw that thing away," the truck driver recalled yelling out his window. "Police behind!"

Andy didn't listen as he walked toward a field near his home on the edge of Santa Rosa. And the driver kept going.

The witness later told authorities he thought the gun was a plastic toy - but he wasn't certain. He also recalled the sound of shots

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Inside-the-final-minutes-before-Andy-Lopez-s-5607654.php#photo-6570803

So the "Eye Witness" knew it was a TOY GUN - but the Weapons Expert couldn't tell and shot a 13 yr old boy dead

BTW: the police STILL have not released the cell phone video confiscated from eye witnesses

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Inside the final minutes before Andy Lopez's toy-gun death (Original post)	FreakinDJ	Aug 2014	OP
Just another story of police defending themselves ....	etherealtruth	Aug 2014	#1
which ones real	Duckhunter935	Aug 2014	#2
Sadly	CANDO	Aug 2014	#3
The "Untrained Witness" knew it was a TOY	FreakinDJ	Aug 2014	#4
my boy?	Duckhunter935	Aug 2014	#5