14-year-old arrested in fatal shooting in Florida

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Authorities in Florida have arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with a shooting that left one victim dead and another in critical condition.

Reports for the shooting at the 11000 block of Lynmoor Drive in Riverview, Florida, came in on Saturday afternoon at the same time that emergency dispatchers received calls detailing a young male suspect running through the neighborhood with a handgun, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

When deputies arrived at the scene, they contacted the suspect, who repeatedly pointed the gun to his head and threatened to shoot himself, authorities said.

The deputies then began de-escalation tactics and negotiated with the suspect for 16 minutes, ultimately convincing him to lower his weapon, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told reporters during a news conference.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/14-year-arrested-fatal-shooting-florida/story?id=103259393

[magicarpet]

1. Well,... we can assume he was not at all dark complected,...

.... or they would have simply plugged him with 50 to 60 bullets rather than the de-escalation approach.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Great minds think alike. Just what I was going to say.

[Polybius]

11. He isn't white

See post 9.

[jimfields33]

4. It's 47 percent Caucasian (largest group) so that's a good guess.

[Polybius]

10. But a wrong one

See post 9.

[jimfields33]

16. Thanks. I've been wrong before. Appreciate the update.

[Polybius]

18. Anytime

You're the only one who acknowledged their mistake, and I commend you for that. The rest stood silent when they were corrected.

[iluvtennis]

6. + agree.

After de-escalation.....When the teen attempted to retrieve the weapon again, deputies shot him in the hand with a rubber bullet.


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Why wasn't he handcuffed and put in the police car after the de-escalation was complete. He could have retrieved that gun and shot several cops and folks in the neighborhood.

[Polybius]

9. You assumed wrong

25 seconds in, "young black male."

[Skittles]

13. acutally

Dispatch received a call from a neighbor about a young Black male running through the neighborhood with a firearm. Deputies confronted the child and negotiated his surrender for about 16 minutes.

these comments are tiresome...there are plenty of non-fatal encounters between POC and police....while I understand the percentages do show a degree of unfairness, to act as POC are always gunned down is silly

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/09/17/tampa-bay-riverview-florida-boy-shoots-mom/1561694978209/

[Kaleva]

17. The boy is black

[sybylla]

19. The author also wouldn't have called him a boy.

He would have been called anything else that would have suggested he was a thug, if they didn't use that exact word.

[sarisataka]

20. You didn't read the post that is right above yours, did you?

[akhindman]

3. Feared for their lives......

You have to move your gun hand to point it at your head, that’s all the police need to startt shooting if the suspect is a black child.

[iluvtennis]

7. Exactly! Welcome to DU @akindman

[Polybius]

12. Except that he is

And they didn't shoot. See post 9.

[Skittles]

14. the suspect IS a black child

FYI

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/09/17/tampa-bay-riverview-florida-boy-shoots-mom/1561694978209/

[Journeyman]

5. The woman who raised me was murdered by a 14-year-old . . .

dragged from her car in broad daylight at a busy L.A. intersection, pistol-whipped to the ground, then two bullets put through her left eye. The assailant got away with 58 cents, half a pack of smokes, and the life of a young girl's mother. Quickly captured, he and his 16-year-old accomplice were sentenced to far too few years. Both were out by their 18th birthdays.

I think of Lucille often, even now, when some 50 years separates me from her loss. I hope her terror was dulled by shock. She had a beautiful 11-year-old daughter, with hair as red as her Mother's. I wish I'd kept in touch but that bastard war interfered, and when I finally returned my family had lost touch as the little girl and her father had moved out of state.

I think often of those little criminals, as well. And I hope both went on to lead productive, fulfilled lives. But I don't imagine they did. I suspect they continued as they had chosen and their end was something on the order of her's.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. That's A Bummer Memory, JM

Shooting at point blank range over nothing and out at 18?
I understand your frustration.

[rockfordfile]

15. Gun violence and crime is out of hand in FL.

Another shooting- gang targeted the wrong home in an Orlando drive-by shooting that killed a 6-year-old girl, according to the Orlando police chief. Nico Brown, 15; Kny Adams and Brandon James Pickett, both 17; and Ricky Raymond Bowery Jr., 18, face charges of first-degree homicide. The shooting also killed a 19-year-old man and injured the girl’s mother.