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(57,839 posts) Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:31 PM Jan 2012

Police kill armed teen student at Texas school [View all]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45870968/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Police shot and killed an armed 15-year-old student at a middle school in South Texas on Wednesday morning. No one else was injured.

Brownsville police detective J.J. Trevino said police got a call about 8 a.m. Wednesday that there was an individual with a weapon at Cummings Middle School. They found the 8th-grade student in a hallway and shot him.

The shooting remains under investigation. Brownsville is 280 miles south of San Antonio on the southern tip of Texas.

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Police kill armed teen student at Texas school [View all] sinkingfeeling Jan 2012 OP

It better not be safety scissors. WingDinger Jan 2012 #1

Pellet gun. eom boppers Jan 2012 #60

Did the boy attempt to shoot at them? If not this is cold blooded murder....if so..then its justifi BenYehuda Jan 2012 #2

my thought exactly. barbtries Jan 2012 #3

Define "engaged" atreides1 Jan 2012 #22

i can't. barbtries Jan 2012 #26

I invented something once slackmaster Jan 2012 #6

LOL! Perfect. Please repost on a regular basis. Islandlife Jan 2012 #9

Seemed as though a predicative question was asked LanternWaste Jan 2012 #13

There is a real difference between attempting to shoot someone and brandishing a weapon slackmaster Jan 2012 #23

Don't know. Local reports say he "engaged" the police. Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #7

In conversation, no doubt. The Doctor. Jan 2012 #19

The other station says he pointed the gun at them and they fired Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #21

Here's an article that says he brandished a weapon... slackmaster Jan 2012 #24

Can you please minavasht Jan 2012 #51

It was a PELLET GUN...according to AP.... BenYehuda Jan 2012 #69

Wouldn't this have been a good opportunity to break out the taser? Quantess Jan 2012 #4

uh no. given the history of school shooting in this country cali Jan 2012 #5

Given the history of gang activity there it's highly possible he wasn't planning a "Columbine" event Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #8

Given that he was a 15 year old eighth grader, he probably has a history of thuggery vminfla Jan 2012 #11

Meh. I wouldn't read too much into his age and grade just yet. Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #16

Facts into evidence vminfla Jan 2012 #35

Fact. It was a pellet gun. Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #43

Pretty stupid to brandish a pellet gun in front of cops vminfla Jan 2012 #44

Also given that he pointed a firearm at a cop. (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2012 #34

Jesus fucking Christ!! pocoloco Jan 2012 #41

What precisely makes this scenario a bad opportunity to use a taser? LanternWaste Jan 2012 #14

Because tasers have a very short range compared to a gun? hack89 Jan 2012 #20

dude, it was a pellet gun. provis99 Jan 2012 #46

Do you realize how much like a real gun a pellet gun looks like? hack89 Jan 2012 #48

only a willing moron couldn't tell the difference. provis99 Jan 2012 #49

At a distance? nt hack89 Jan 2012 #50

When staring down someone with a gun bluevoter4life Jan 2012 #56

Let's try a thought experiment - Imagine someone is pointing this at you... slackmaster Jan 2012 #63

Taser against a firearm is a bad plan. Atypical Liberal Jan 2012 #36

Uh, minavasht Jan 2012 #54

I propose that we draw ironclad conclusions about this before any facts are known. Orrex Jan 2012 #10

Speculation is more fun vminfla Jan 2012 #12

Isn't that what the internet is for? n/t Ian David Jan 2012 #15

that's what I use it for Doctor_J Jan 2012 #31

I propose rather that we discuss, wonder, consider and speculate LanternWaste Jan 2012 #17

You're talking nonsense! Orrex Jan 2012 #18

Yes, we can just base them on the "fact" that all cops are treestar Jan 2012 #33

If the student aimed a gun mainstreetonce Jan 2012 #25

Firing, perhaps. crim son Jan 2012 #27

Only a murderer fires a weapon with intent to kill the target, even in self-defense. slackmaster Jan 2012 #28

Find a Shooting Class that does *Not* teach you to fire at center mass vminfla Jan 2012 #29

They teach that because firing at center of mass is the most effective way to STOP an attacker slackmaster Jan 2012 #32

If you are firing, you are firing to kill. Atypical Liberal Jan 2012 #37

I shoot to admonish Orrex Jan 2012 #38

I am the most anti-gun member of DU, IMO Doctor_J Jan 2012 #30

Yeah they just were doing their jobs DaveJ Jan 2012 #39

Monday-morning quarterbacking is such bullshit slackmaster Jan 2012 #40

Uh what did I say? DaveJ Jan 2012 #42

Do you believe those cops went in there wanting to kill a teenage kid? slackmaster Jan 2012 #45

Well imagine if they did try to shoot for the arm, legs or whatever and they missed octothorpe Jan 2012 #52

I dunno. Shooting him in the back of the head seems kind of risky to me, too. Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #61

I didn't see that they shot him in the back of the head.... octothorpe Jan 2012 #62

Brownsville Herald is where I read it first Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2012 #64

Three shots fired, two hit near center of mass and one hit the head slackmaster Jan 2012 #65

DO ME A FAVOR backwoodsbob Jan 2012 #47

Can you minavasht Jan 2012 #55

Thank god no innocent people were harmed in the incident. LetTimmySmoke Jan 2012 #53

Yeah, turns out it was a pellet gun. crim son Jan 2012 #59

Never bring a fork to a knife fight, slackmaster Jan 2012 #68

Whatever happened, Turbineguy Jan 2012 #57

Since Columbine the police now respond to "active shooter" scenario Historic NY Jan 2012 #58

Only in America. CanSocDem Jan 2012 #66

Indeed, because being a dead victim is so much morally superior. Fourier Jan 2012 #67

this is sad.... unkachuck Jan 2012 #70