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StumblePolice fatally shoot teen armed with knife; boy identified
Friends say Tanner Chamberlain was a junior at Chaparral High
Metro Police investigate after an officer fatally shot a teenage boy Tuesday night in the eastern Las Vegas Valley. Authorities said he held a knife to a woman’s throat.
Published Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 | 6:05 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 | 1:12 p.m.
Officer-involved shooting
A Metro Police officer Tuesday night shot a teenage boy who authorities say had his arm around a woman's neck while holding a knife.
Police were called at 5:13 p.m. to the apartment complex at 4855 Vegas Valley Drive, at Aloha Avenue near Nellis Boulevard, Capt. Randy Montandon said.
They found the teen, identified Wednesday by the Clark County School District as Tanner Chamberlain, with a knife and a woman struggling on the ground outside an apartment building, police said.
The officer shot the boy one time in an effort to protect the woman, Montandon said.
"I personally saw the knife," said Montandon, captain of Metro's robbery and homicide unit. He described the weapon as larger than a kitchen knife.
Friends of Chamberlain, who they identified as a 16-year-old junior at Chaparral High School, described him as easy-going on Tuesday night.
Friends said he had recently appeared as Oberon in a play of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but also said there had been recent troubles at home.
One of Chamberlain's friends, 15-year-old Scott Landreth, said Chamberlain was planning to go to college and study business.
"He was a good friend, a great guy," Landreth said. "He's going to be missed."
Neighbors next door to Chamberlain's apartment called Landreth and another friend after they heard a commotion and a shot fired.
"Everyone has troubles these days, with the economy and all, but he was better off than most," Landreth said.
The officer involved in the shooting has been put on paid administrative leave and won't be identified for 48 hours, per department policy, Montandon said.
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nellis blvd...shocker, huh?
You just have to be a big old donkey, shocker, hunh?
This has to be the worst police force in the country! Why do we tolerate cold blooded murder? This is worse than Iraq!
poor kid. I do not know all the facts, but a teenager is dead. Unfortunately, Steven has justified the occurrence due to the location.
In rich neighborhoods, we have to worry about white-collar crimes that cost the country billions. In the hood, they worry about lives.
did i REALLY try to justify this event because of the location?
nope.
it's just the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that this quadrant of the valley has more than its share of these things.
I hope the officer doesn't let this get to him and he will have the resolve to again use deadly force in the future should the need arise.
Let's get real folks - this is what can happen whether you be a teen, adult, black or white. If you threaten someone else's life (in this case assault with a deadly weapon) you may wind up dead either at the hand of the victim or the police.
What would you want this officer to do if it was your daughter or loved one being assaulted? The officer isn't going to play this like Hollywood and try and shoot the knife out of the assailant's hand. You shoot to stop the threat and I'm fairly certain this young criminal was given the opportunity to stop before deadly force came into play.
Thank you Vegas Glocker!! This can happen anywhere, anytime in America.
Just because it happened on Nellis doesn't mean it doesn't, can't and won't happen anywhere else in Vegas.
Hope they 'find' the knife this time...
The way this happened, I'm fairly certain there had to be witnesses. If the cop was trigger happy, we'll soon know. Though from the initial report, I really don't see how he had a choice. An older brother of a friend of the family did the same thing to his own mom, about a month ago. He was taken away for the night. Fortunately, that was the worst of it. He was allowed to come home the next day.
Unfortunately, such a thing as out-of-control teenage boys does exist. I know it's hard when the hormones take over, but these kids have to fight their worst impulses, or else someone will end up dead. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
...that last line oughta draw some responses ;-)
There had to be another way. Shoot first is not tolerable any longer.
I know the job is dangerous but that is why we keep being told to honor and pay our cops. shooting first cannot be the only option.
Anybody who would threaten his own mothers life with a deadly weapon hardly seems worth saving. Comments like, he was a real easy going kid are laughable to say the least. Sure dude.
Final word
If you are stupid enough to display a deadly weapon during a confrontation with the police, go ahead and plan on that being the last stupid thing you will ever do.
Well done Metro. The court system is flawed and justice isn't served these days. Since the courts don't hold people accountable their actions Metro should continue using force when needed. Each time Metro protects us it means we have one less person the court system lets free that we as taxpayers are forced to support.
Three or four cops could not use their battons, pepper spray or tear gas to subdue a teenager with a knife? Give me a break.
They could knock him down and then subdue him? Was he really Superman in disguise as Clark Kent?
They all carry big guns and real bullets. Why not shoot him in the leg? Cops could not use the K-9 dogs to attack him? Oh, I forgot they are trained to shoot to kill first... A 90 year old grandma might be an even more serious threat... Watch out grandma's they can and will shoot you too even if all your are armed with is a purse. Afterall you might have a hidden hat pin inside...
They can't bring a teenager down without killing him? This police force is out of control... Wreckless speeding and crashes without appropriate lights and sirens, and now a continuing series of shootings.
Oh, I understand how really dangerous their job can be and I respect them for their job. But, the on going series of shootings seems to be beyond what is a normal standard. Our sheriff had better re-evaluate the training of his officers.
Are we going to hire gun happy Rent-a-cops for our schools too? Wow, that is a scary thought!
Tell you what Vestini, let's have teenaged boy grab you around the neck with one arm and put a knife in the other hand and have you pinned to the ground struggling. While the boys in tan pepper spray him and whack at him with their big sticks, we'll all pray your throat isn't slit. Careful Mr. Vestini, you are in grave danger of becoming a crusty old armchair quarterback!
don't forget that there was a lady with a freaking knife to her throat. Nothing says "shoot me" more than that. Had the cops tried "batons & pepper spray" that HOSTAGE could be dead instead. Or both. Or an officer.
Get real. When someone has a weapon and doesn't follow commands to drop it they leave the police with no choice but to use force. That force can be deadly. I doubt the cops walked up and just started firing their guns, get real. You weren't there so you can't say what happened.
Are we going to hire gun happy Rent-a-cops for our schools too? And further more Vestini, if there are knife wielding idiots on my daughter's campus threatening her...you betcha!
Thank you Metro for protecting this woman from being decapitated.
Let's all use our thinking power and deduce that this type of tragedy happens mostly in Vegas ghettos and barrios, where the lower socioeconomic families live in squalor and shame, and human life is considered cheap and worthless.
the cops are out of control!!!
Again, here we go with the "The police are murderers!!!" comments.
This police officer was JUSTIFIED shooting this young man. He had a knife to the throat of a woman. The police have to act fast in situations like this. You either let him slash that woman's throat and risk having the young man then come after the officer(s), or you just shoot the suspect who had the weapon and save more lives.
Steve is correct. It's the Nellis area. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Would all the bleeding heart liberals please stop bashing the police for doing something good? If some nut job had a knife to my daughther's throat, I'd be sending "thank you" notes to the officer that shot the suspect.
Sheilacatherine: wow, I didn't realize that you were such an authority on police tactics. Are you a cop also?
You are a mental midget and not worthy of responding to regardless of the comments. To verbally duel with you would be wasted effort on my part....you couldn't take it. HAVE A NICE DAY
It is obvious, although not to some idiots here that the CHILD, and yes I said CHILD had some mental issues. I wasn't there so I can't comment on how the police handled the situation but what I do know is a CHILD lost his life and a mother is grieving terribly and jackasses here use this forum to attack each others opinions about the whole thing. If that dosen't make you sick too your gut.... I just dont know!
Good for Metro. Kid has a woman pinned to the ground while holding a knife? And some of the pinheads here think the cops should talk to the kid, or use pepper spray? What would their reaction be if the woman ended up dead?
If you don't want to be shot by cops, drop your weapon when they approach. Simple, really.
Hey Birdiedreamin: No your wrong: It's the criminals that are out of control.
What would all of you prefer, for the police to wait for the young man to physically put the knife to her body? Maybe just touch it. Maybe just in a quarter of an inch. Maybe somewhere between there and buried to the hilt. Then she would be dead. Pretend you are standing behind the officer and the young man had the knife to your child or parent or sibling , , , . Tell me you would not want the officer to put the suspect down. I didn't think you wouldn't. No one wants to see anyone hurt or, in this instance, killed. However, sometimes there is no alternative.
As for one who has been in law enforcement,this is by far the worst department i have ever seen!When the powers at the top get away with anything they choose,the trickle affect comes down.I am not stateing that this was or was not justified,but its time you people stand up,and demand for a new sherriff!His actions show all over the force in the way of most of the officers attitudes,I HAVE A BADGE,AND YOU DO AS I SAY!For my family and I,this was the last straw.THIS DEPARTMENT IS WAY WAY OUT OF CONTROL,AND UNTILL THE CITIZENS STAND UP AND DEMAND THAT GILLISPIE RESIGN,IT WILL GET ALOT WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER!They could weed out atleast 65% of the force,and still have little nazis running around with that pretty badge that they think gives them ulimate athority?TIME FOR GILLISPIE AND HIS STORM TROOPERS TO GO!!!!!!
I believe you all had a valid point in what you wanted you had to say, but what it comes down that he was only 16 years old and something different should have been done.
I knew this kid and I repeat kid, yes he had some problems but that doesn't mean his problems deserved him of being shot and killed. I am not from Las Veags and I do not know how your police work, but there definitely could have been a better way in which they could have handled the situation. This was kid who needed help and unfortunately he took the wrong way of seeking it. I can't tell you people how to feel, but the woman who he had by the throat was his mother and his own mother ask them not to shoot, but they did anyway. He was a good kid it is a total shame that this happened the way that it did. All I ask of the people in Las Vegas is to have some compassion and realize that 16 year old kid was lost in this tradegy.
Metro PD officers exercised the correct option on the perp. Well done, Metro.
The shooting was probably justified. What's the point of having tazers, beanbag shotguns, etc if their policy is see a knife shoot first ask questions later?
No police officer in the country would bring a tazer to a knife fight. Tazers half the time don't work properly and the woman would have her throat slit. Pepper spray takes up to 45 seconds to effect the person = slit throat. Getting close enough to use baton = officer cut / hurt and womans throat slit. Shoot them in the leg? That is a joke only seen in movies. The only, I repeat ONLY option for the Officer was to use his gun.
Support the police officer, he now has to deal with the taking of a life where he had no other alternative. The psychological effect on him, even doing the right thing, will be something he has to live with.
the justice system in clark county is a freaking joke.
go to http://www.legallyunbound.com/2009/09/ei...
and look at the campaign contributions of our judges...then look at how many law firms and businesses have made contributions to them. you think YOU have a shot at justice in clark county?
haha!
ya, right.
We have turned into Afghanistan, what is next? IED's?
Thanks metro .. You have my permission to act the same way if you see someone with a knife at my throat!
To All Metro Officers "If someone has a knife to my throat, feel free to shoot the bastard" I don't care how old the perp is, I don't care how big the knife is just shoot.
And I don't want the guy wounded I want him killed!
Thanks again Metro for protecting Las Vegas....
This officer had one chance to end this and stop the woman from being stabbed. He had to go with the option MOST likely to stop the threat. Turns out, he was right. I hope he gets a medal.
Timmy106... Okay, if you ever have some 16-year-old kid hold a knife to your throat... we'll just sing him lullaby's to lure him to sleep.
Facts: Police received 911 call. Police went to disturbance. Police saw a 16-year-old kid with a knife. Said "kid" was warned (more than once), said "kid" became aggressive and grabbed woman and held the knife to her throat. Police used forced to save woman's life.
What is wrong in this scenario? Uh, nothing...
Metro you can save MY life any day... let Timmy and his friend handle it themselves.
In order to clear the world of these kind of people, robbers,murders,molesters,child abuse,drug dealers etc. we are going to have a law if you are caught in the acted, we call the TV stations, put the perk up against a wall turn on the camera and shoot them on the spot. It would only take about 50 of them and the rest would think twice. There is no punishment for those kind of actions other than rid the world of them.Just like the four boys who beat that kid to death up north, they should have been the first.
Oh I forgot we could get rid of the prisons, that cost taxpayers any where from $30,000 to $50,000. a year for each prisoner to keep their sorry a s locked away from decent people.
Most of them are illegal Mexicans, too.
MY QUESTION IS VERY SIMPLE.
Why has their not been near the amount of people shot by police in any other metropolitan area in the United States? I'm sure that many times the police have no choice. I have read of many times where they did have a choice and still choose to kill. Yes shooting someone in the back while they are running away is a choice. Police lie everyday in court for minor violations of the law. How can we believe them when we need to? Many larger cities in the United State have way less officer involved shooting cases. Why is this? Is Las Vegas, just a horrible place filled with undesirables, or are police trained differently everywhere else? I would love a police officer to answer this question.
Weren't they saying yesterday that the woman was the kids mother? I hope she sues Metro. I wasn't there, I can't judge how metro handled the situation, but I do know most cops in this town abuse their power and use excessive force, so it wouldn't surprise me if the cop was acting trigger happy. A cop can say anything he wants to, even if there are witnesses, as evidenced by James Manor's death and the accusations against Calvin Darling.
I love reading the lunatic replies. Oh please don't shoot the kid, metro used excessive force. This is why America has turned into a human cesspool.
If more criminals were exterminated on the spot America would become a much safer place. Quit whining because the Democratic Party wants these psychotic psycho path followers to remain on the streets. America is fed up taking care of your people and it's about time a public agency hired to protect and serve does their job to the fullest extent, shoot first and total eradication of the criminal.
Kudos to all Police Officers who shoot to kill, they're doing the job we paid them to do, protect and serve and they too can go home to their family knowing they did a good deed for the day and America is a much safer place.
Thank you Metro, we appreciate your good work and for caring about public safety and eradicating the criminal elements.
John Wayne would have kicked the knife outta the kids hand!
To its2hot:
I was agreeing with you until you got to the part about the Democratic Party. Then your post just turned stupid.
I agree, the police officer did what he was trained to do. I feel for the mother and the officer. The only person to blame in this situation is Tanner.
stevem and afveteran-I'm shocked to see u on hear with your racial comments as usual. You have to be really old bitter men and just wait around for a crime to be committed by a nonwhite (oops not this time) so you can justify your racism. Forget a kid is dead, forget I see the kid everyday, forget his family's pain, forget Las Vegas was once run by the mob. Las Vegas Sun what does it take to permanently remove these two racists from the comment section?
A woman's life was on the line.
If the facts provided in this article are true, then Metro did the right thing.
Those who turn this into a "Democrat vs. Republican" issue or a "this side of town vs. that side of town" issue or an issue of the criminal's "age" are missing the point.
Well done, officer.
"I was agreeing with you until you got to the part about the Democratic Party. Then your post just turned stupid."
"Those who turn this into a "Democrat vs. Republican" issue or a "this side of town vs. that side of town" issue or an issue of the criminal's "age" are missing the point."
This is what is wrong with America today. But not for the Democrats and their appeasement policies and making law from the benches, Officers could do their job without the fear of retribution or being prosecuted for doing their job.
Democrats cram down our throats; it wasn't their fault, somebody else made them do it, the color of the skin, racism and segregation, the general population being too stupid therefore we must become codependent on the government. If they would allow the police to do their job and stop making it a racial issue, not that persons fault and stop blaming the officers then I could see it from a neutral point of view.
If you really look back in history and see what is occurring here in America and the direction the Democratic Party is pursuing, you will see and trend. Violent crime has risen and people aren't held accountable for their actions and if they get their way, more excuses for criminals to commit the crime of choice. They'll blame the economy, racism, or some other pompous excuse to pass the blame and divert the attention away from the real issue, they're evil.
I don't care if you're rich, poor, white, yellow, brown, or black. If you're evil your evil, if your break the law then serve the time. If you threaten to hurt or are hurting somebody and you don't follow the officer's command then they can shoot that person, dead or alive, officer's choice. If alive, no appeals no club fed, from the courthouse to the chamber or whatever the sentence is, just quit making excuses.
Why does the article repeatedly refer to "a woman" when it was his mother?
Thanks Vestini...proved my point...as I KNEW you would!
I knew the kid... He was best friends with my little sister... He loved her dearly. He was a good kid, a very good kid. He had a serious case of Bipolar disorder, though, among other mental issues. But he was a smart kid, a very smart kid. A great friend, a brilliant person. Just..had some troubles controlling his issues. It hurts me to know that he has had to leave this world in such a manner...
The mom was on Channel 8 this morning and whining about the police shooting her son in the temple. She says her son was Bi-Polar, geez we live in Nevada where the sun shines, the weather is great, and Prozac isn't the drug of choice. Absolutely amazing how people use an ailment that is typically used in States where the weather is gloom and doom and they invented this ailment to justify their crimes where the pharmaceutical companies jumped on the band wagon, pump more of their product to the consumer. The kid was just evil, accept it and quit making excuses.
If the police would have responed any different and the woman would have been hurt ot killed, there would have been a scumbag lawyer suing the department for the police not following proper police policy.
Knives kill people just as easy as guns. I am sure shooting a kid is a tough enough decision, much less having nimwits second guessing it when it was 100% the right call. For that moron talking about using dogs. Bullets are cheaper to replace then a trained dog. "Shoot him in the leg." Yea thats what you clowns would be asking the cop to do when some guy has a knife to your throat.
Another lesson for you thugs. It is not okay to put knives next to other peoples throats. The police may be called and the responding cop may be a crack shot and put one in your temple.
It sounds like that poor kid had issues but there are some things you just CAN NOT do and that is one. Its like driving 75 mph into a tree. The results are usually devastating.
Knives don't kill people, guns don't kill people. People using them improperly do. A gun and a knife left together in a room with a person, untouched by ANY OTHER SOUL, do not hurt people. And, of the whole "Bipolar disorder is just an invented thing." Uh, no, it's not. Bipolar disorder is serious. You suffer moods in the extremes, for extended periods of times. Days upon months of severe depression, days upon months of severe mania. Your moods shift and change unexpectedly, with no reasoning behind it. You can spend weeks feeling nothing but emptiness and worthlessness for no reason, trying to talk yourself out of the feelings, trying to find something - anything - to make you smile. And you just can't. You spend weeks unable to sleep because you're restless and feeling really up there, but not able to do anything. You suffer moments of savage, irrational rage. For no. bloody. reason. There are moments where you can't think rationally, no matter how hard you try to. It's just...there. You want to say Tanner was evil, kid, go ahead. But you didn't know him. All you know is that he was 'some kid who got shot by the cops when he held a knife to his mom's throat'. You probably didn't even know that she was his Mom until you saw her on the news this morning. Tanner was not evil. I'm not making excuses.
I find it rather interesting that those on this board applauding a cop acting as instant judge, jury, and executioner of a 15-year old bipolar kid are the same ones who rant that a public option in health insurance will result in a "police state" with "death panels".
Well, I guess they just validate Alan Grayson's description of the 3-point Republican health care plan: (1) Don't get sick; (2) If you do get sick: (3) Die quickly.
This was NLV or some favela in Rio de Janeiro?
Anyway, kid has a knife to ANYONE's throat he got what was coming...and if you feel the need to criticize - start with the "baby's daddy" and the entire lineage of this "kid gone wild".
Another reason not to call police to solve family disputes.They are nothing but thugs with badges. The officer will get off when he goes to kangaroo court.
Clearly, we don't have all the details in the case. That said, if the reported details are correct, then I believe shooting the assailant in an attempt at saving the victim's life makes sense.
I'm new to Las Vegas, but it surprises me how quick people seem to be to blame the police and assume some sort of corruption is involved with any story.
Police were called to the scene, which means someone felt like the situation was dangerous. Holding a knife to a woman's throat is a bad idea, and failing to immediately drop the weapon and surrender fully to police is idiotic. I'm not surprised at the outcome; I'm shocked at how many people are jumping in to vilify the police for trying to protect the woman with a knife to her throat.
The mother said her son was shielding himself from the police and was holding the knife parrallel to her throat. She also said she told them repeatedly not to shoot her son.... then the kid catches one in the temple. If he had hurt the mother, after she told the police not to shoot there son, there should be a law protecting the police officers. I'd rather have that then have cops blasting off with this "shoot first ask questions later" bs.
but Oquendo says her son struggled with bi-polar disorder. "He refused to take medication because he didn't want it to alter his creativity because he was into poetry and writing," she said...
Its been reported in the local news that episodes like this have happened before,and it seems like mom contributed more to the problem instead of the solution by not making the kid take his meds as directed.
Newcomer - people here are quick to vilify the police because there is a long history of corruption in the area's police departments. Two of the more recent and outrageous occurences were a detective shooting a fleeing unarmed man in the back who was not under arrest and a cop who raced down a Las Vegas street at 109MPH, causing an accident and killing himself. In both cases Metro lied on the police reports, attempting to cover up what happened.
For the most part police officers deserve our support. Their job is dangerous and can at times be unrewarding. But we have too many bad apples in our police force and not enough oversight and accountability.
Two quick comments...
1) I saw her TV interview...not a single tear, for what it's worth.
2) In another unrelated story an 18 year and his friend killed both his parents in their moblie home at Charleston and Mojave. Okay Metro haters, what should they have done if they were there sooner???
To those trying to accuse the officers of wrong doing (although they responded appropriately), next time you have a knife, gun, baseball bat, piece of glass to your throat, don't be afraid, just talk to the kid. I'm sure you will be able to maintain your sense of calmness and ability to act as if nothing unusual is happening, while talking the kid out of killing you. If that doesn't work offer to pay for some treatment or to be his sponsor at future killers anonymous. I mean at least you will be guilt free when he/she guts you for the $10.00 in your wallet or your car. But hey at least the kid will get a chance to make himself into something in the future. As for you, hey you tried your best, at least you can take that with you to the here-after....
a kill crazy spree by metro, they killed the pit bulls, the snake, the alligator, the roosters and now this guy, when will metro's blood thirst be quenched?
Do not judge or believe everything you read. Unless you where there you don't know what happened. If anyone was listening to his mother, she didn't feel threatened by him, the kinfe was no bigger then 2-3 inches, he was scared! There are tazars, anything else that wouldn't have killed him! Friends watch him die from their windows, and I know all of them. Ask one of his closer friends, see what happens, that isn't a cop, that isn't a reporter. I'm not saying all cops are bad, some are good and help out, they put their lives on the line. But there where other ways to disarm if he seemed a threat. The policy where it's shoot to kill, change it! People lost a really good friend over a mis-undertanding. He's was NOT evil, he was NOT crazy. He was bi-polar that was coming from from a bi-polar attack. He was a scared kid that had big dreams that where cut short.
There are two separate issues here: 1) the overall behavior of local law enforcement 2) the actions taken by this particular officer.
robert_lv's above post speaks to the problem we have with out-of-control cops. And he only cites a few examples. Police inquiries are a corrupt, unjust joke, and need to be reformed.
That said, I side with the officer in this case. I mean -how can one not? As others have pointed out, the son held a knife TO HER THROAT. Even in his above friend's sympathetic description of him, we hear about "moods in the extremes... severe mania... savage, irrational rage... moments where you can't think rationally." I'm truly sorry it had to end this way, but it sounds like there was a real and imminent danger of this kid slashing his mother's throat. Certainly it had to look this way, and that's even not knowing the background on this kid which we now know. The cop cannot be faulted for fearing the son could suddenly kill the woman at anytime, thusly having to make the snap judgement which he did.
As bad as the outcome of this is -and the cop will always have to live with this- can you imagine if he had NOT acted and ended up looking on as the kid slashed her throat and killed her before his eyes? He had an awful choice to make, but I would have made the same choice. I support him.
I'm sure I'll catch a lot of flak for bringin' this up, but that cop has to live with the fact that he shot a 16 year old for the rest of his life, and I'm quite sure he didn't throw on his uniform at the beginning of his shift even remotely thinking that he was to be involved in a scenerio like that, but from what I understand of being a policeman, you can go through a whole week of boring, nothing shift work, and suddenly outta the blue in a split second, even if its the last 20 minutes of one shift you can be faced with a situation that consists of sweat, adrenaline, an unthinkable amount of stress,just like that...I think about it like going from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 15 seconds or less, and all I see the job cops do on a general basis is taking care of "people problems" that the rest of us don't want to deal with, or even admit exists,...Plus, I'm sure this cop has co-workers that have teen aged kids so, how do you think he's to feel when all this is over with, with the endless investigations, phone calls, hate mail, sworn statements,the news media knocking on his door at all hours of the day and night, etc, etc, etc,...I'm glad I'm not a cop an have to make some of the decisions they have to make, thats all I gotta say.......
It seems like most people do not understand the entire story. The boy holding a knife to his mothers throat. The mother yelled at the police not to shoot the boy. But the police shot him anyway, in front of her, and killed him. The mother is suicidal. The boy was bipolar (so was the mother), and was a brilliant. If the mother asked the police not to shoot her son, but did anyway, I feel like the police was resposible for this boys death. Shame on the metro police.
AngryReader:
Love your reply. It's like calling a burglar an unwanted house guest, a rapist a one night stand, a car thief one who borrowed the car. This is exactly what is wrong in America, call it like it is. Obama and clan along with their followers are useless and are destroying America from within.
Even if my own brother had a knife to my mothers throat, I would have ended his threat by whatever means to save my mother. If a person at whatever age can hold a knife to their mothers throat, Where does it stop?
What do politics have to do with this? A young BOY's life is gone and basically by his own hand. He was mentally ill. The police did what they had to do to save a life, just as the young BOY did what he thought was right (his life had probably been agonizing due to his illness). There should be NO blame...to anyone.
The kid was a football player and a honor student. I wonder what happens when Metro gets the huge bill from this lawsuit waiting to happen?