According to Fox8 Cleveland:
One 911 caller said the suspect was “probably a juvenile” and that the gun was “probably a fake.”
When two officers arrived, they found the boy and ordered him to raise his hands. He did not comply with the officers’ orders and reached into his waistband, according to police. Shots were fired, and he was hit in the torso.
911 calls do not necessarily go to the responding officers, right?
911 caller is qualified to say the kid was pointing the gun at people. Not sure their assessment of “fake” has much meaning unless it was an all orange toy gun or it had an orange tip.
That’s not the picture of him I saw earlier. It looked like a mug shot. Nobody here knows what they would do if they had to make a split second decisions that might cost them their lives. If the kid refused the cops’ order and pulled what certainly looked like a gun out of his pants, then he was killed by his own stupidity.