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The boy had made
the original call, police said in a statement.
According to the statement, two officers responded to a 911 call
requesting a welfare check on a 15-year-old standing in front of
a school. The caller said the boy was not armed.
A boy at the school pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed
it at one of the responding officers as they exited their patrol
cars, the statement said.
The officers drew weapons and instructed the boy to drop the
gun, but he refused and walked toward an officer, ignoring a
second command to drop the gun and continuing to walk toward one
of them.
Both officers fired, striking the boy several times. He was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
The gun held by the teen-ager turned out to be a semi-automatic
BB air pistol, police said.
The boy, who was not identified because of his age, was a local
resident who was a student at the school where he was shot,
police said.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud, editing by Larry King)
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