SWAT teams just keep doing stupid things.
It’s like “Florida Man,” but it always ends in needless death.
Was the suspect his dad or his mom’s girlfriend?
No matter the kid would still be alive ..is not for mom and whoever her questionable guest was.
What? They didn’t have a dog to shoot?
Was the suspect his dad or his mom’s BOYfriend?
No matter the kid would still be alive ..IF not for mom and whoever her questionable guest was?
You’d think by now that someone would have invented a way to disperse tear gas without the need for fire or heat.
So... what was the role of the deceased juvenile in the crime? As far as the police knew, could the juvenile have left the premises without the perp’s permission. Maybe there is more to this; hopefully there is, I guess.
The house had no doors or windows?
Kid was in a wheelchair?
He was tied up?
Pretty sure anyone who wants to get out of a house can do so.
Unless, you know... Elizabeth Smart.
We’re better off without him
If people read the story the police tried to get both of them to come out. We don’t know if the 28 y o was using the kid as a hostage do we?
The single most important detail is whether the “teen” was a hostage or an accomplice. Leaving that out is incompetence or malice, you decide. I think it may be a clue that the picture of the “teen” is from when he is 6 or 7, not a recent.
Speaking of malice or incompetence, if the kid was not a hostage there was no reason for the JBTs not to wait them out. If he was a hostage burning the house down around him seems a pretty poor rescue.
The youngster would be alive today if he simply exited the house when the police asked him to exit.
Sad. RIP.
Less than lethal does not mean safe.
The boy didn't die because the police used tear gas (which they didn't), he died because he didn't get out of a burning house.
In this case you could have avoided spreading deliberately deceptive information by following the links to the original news story instead of re-posting Yahoo's socialist regurgitation.