Police fatally shoot 17-year-old boy fleeing traffic stop

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Keith Srakocic and Claudia Lauer, Associated Press
Updated 2:59 pm, Wednesday, June 20, 2018

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old boy just seconds after he fled from a traffic stop late Tuesday in a confrontation partly captured on video from a nearby home.

Investigators said Wednesday that the car stopped in the town of East Pittsburgh matched the description of a vehicle being sought in a nonfatal shooting in a town a few miles away. An East Pittsburgh officer, who has not been identified, was taking the driver into custody when the two passengers, including 17-year-old Antwon Rose, fled the car.

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said Rose was shot three times. A report from the medical examiner confirmed that Rose had died at a local hospital but did not say where he was struck or the cause of death. McDonough said police found two semi-automatic handguns on the floor of the car.

In the video, which was posted to Facebook, the teens can be seen dashing from the car. Three shots ring out, and both passengers appear to either duck or fall to the ground as they pass behind a house. A woman yells, asking why an officer shot the boy for running.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-shoot-kill-17-year-old-boy-who-fled-13009874.php

[BumRushDaShow]

1. A caller on Joe Madison this morning mentioned this story

She said that according to what she heard on the local news there, the traffic stop was because the car they were driving supposedly had "bullet holes" in the windshield.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I'm sure the officer was "in fear for his life".

[NutmegYankee]

3. Well Yeah, I mean you could have a heart attack from running.

The Officer will probably have to file for disability now anyway because the effort of squeezing the trigger probably hurt his donut eating hand.

[cntrfthrs]

4. not an apologist for rogue police but...

run from the cops, get yourself shot...especially if you're black or brown...and if firearms are involved...

[marble falls]

5. I don't think you mean that the way it sounds, do you????? You equate being a PoC ....

with having firearms????

[moriah]

6. I am praying it was a reference to the article....

... saying two guns were found in the car. Not on the runner from what I could see, though, and I wouldn't put it past some cops to place guns after a shooting.

[brush]

7. WTF? Why is running away during a traffic stop a death sentence?

We need better trained cops who don't immediately resort to pulling and shooting their gun as their first instinct, especially in non-life threatening situations.