From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
An Atlanta police recruit shot and killed a teen boy who tried to rob him at gunpoint early Saturday [Feb. 9], authorities said.
The 14-year-old allegedly had confronted the recruit while he was in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Parkside Crossing apartments.
Forest Park police Lt. Amy Wright said the teen suffered more than one gunshot wound and died.
Wright also did not release the name or age of the police recruit, but she described him as a younger officer who recently got out of the U.S. Marine Corps, is attending Atlanta’s police academy and lives at Parkside Crossing.
The shooting occurred at 12:15 a.m. The recruit was sitting in his personal vehicle, logged onto his laptop computer because the apartment complex offers free wireless Internet service, Wright said.
He heard a tap on his driver’s side window and looked up to see the boy standing outside his car. The youth allegedly had a shotgun pointed at the recruit’s face.
The boy said something the man did not understand, but the recruit believed the teen wanted his laptop, Wright said.
The recruit could not roll down his window because it was broken, so he began opening the door, she said. As he stood up, he grabbed a handgun that he had at his side and used the laptop to hide the weapon.
The recruit then opened fire on the robber, killing him, Wright said. The would-be victim spotted a second male nearby who apparently was a lookout. That individual ran away and was being sought by police Saturday evening.
Forest Park police found a set of keys on the dead boy for a vehicle that was parked outside the gated complex. The car had been stolen from East Point, Wright said.
The shooting appeared to be in self-defense and no charges were pending against the police recruit, Wright said.
The moral of the story is don’t point a gun at someone if you don’t want to risk being shot by them.
The recruit recently got out of the U.S. Marine Corps. Those guys don’t know how to miss.
The punk was driving around in a stolen vehicle as well. What a loser. But we’re not through with the story just yet:
The 14-year-old boy who was killed when he tried to rob an Atlanta police recruit with a shotgun this weekend also was being sought by police in DeKalb County for an armed robbery at a synagogue.
DeKalb County police were searching for Demario Jackson of Atlanta for allegedly breaking into Ner Hamizrah Synagogue on Lavista Road with a friend Jan. 31 and robbing a congregation member at gunpoint, said Mikki Jones, spokeswoman for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.
So now we know the name of the punk - the dead punk - is Demario Jackson, a 14-year-old boy driving around in a stolen car and wanted on armed robbery of a synagogue congregation member. Demario, you are today’s poster child for why I carry a concealed weapon every time I leave my house.
We’ll probably hear Demario’s family spin this until it’s reported that he was an Eagle Scout, rescued abandoned puppies, taught a class on compassion and forgiveness at a local bible college and was comforting a friend in that apartment complex when he stopped to ask directions and was viciously gunned down and had the keys to a stolen car planted on him.
Bah. He was a punk, a seasoned criminal-in-training, and I’m glad this animal was put down before he could harm one of my family.
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