“Myers, who was armed with a registered semiautomatic pistol, told police he approached the teens with his gun out and told them to put their hands in the air, but no one complied,”
Not Guilty.
Sorry, this guy is going to prison. He made an observation, and acted on it. It was his false assessment of the situation that’s going to get him.
That was his story. It’s on video so the truth will come out.
Are you required to comply if you’re not doing anything illegal and some random stranger who is clearly not a cop demands you put your hands in the air?
So if a stranger walks up pointing a gun at me, I must comply or die?
Yikes! How did you get to ‘Not Guilty’?
According to the police report, Myers claimed that none of the teenagers ever complied with his orders to put their hands up.
Yet surveillance footage allegedly showed one of the teenagers placing his gun on the ground, and two of them – including Rohani – reacting to Myers’ orders by putting their hands in front of their bodies and extending their fingers to show they were carrying no weapons.
“Despite their compliance, the defendant then escalated the situation further, tackling [one of the teens] and pinning him to the ground, while still holding his gun trained on the [other] teenagers,” prosecutors alleged.
“He claimed he did this to prevent [the first boy] from reaching for the airsoft pistol he’d already placed on the ground, but failed to take the obvious step of securing the toy gun, rather than assaulting the teen who had carried it.”
At that point, Myers told police, one of the teenagers reached into his waistband for a gun and refused to stop when ordered. Myers feared for his life and shot the boy “numerous times”.
Surveillance footage showed the boy’s right hand “briefly lower[ing] to his waist area” before being shot, police said.
For their part, the two surviving teenagers told police that they had repeatedly informed Myers that they were only carrying “BB guns”.
“Not Guilty.”
He’s guilty as hell. Who the fuck does he think he is pulling a gun on kids and telling them to put their hands up. If he were a gun owner at a GUN store a he’d know kids buy airlift guns in them. Pecker should be shot.