California Sheriff's Deputies shot at and killed, a 13-year-old boy who had been carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle. Last Wednesday at a news conference, police said that the deputies repeatedly asked the boy, Andy Lopez, to drop his gun. The gun that looked like a AK-47 assault rifle was really a pellet gun. Instead of putting down his weapon, Lopez raised it at the deputies instead causing a panic. The police didn't realize he was only a boy when they saw him with his back turned. Many people question whether the deputies did the appropriate thing when they fired on the young boy. Father Rodrigo Lopez, says that the gun was a play toy that belonged to a friend of his. Andy Lopez was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/calif-sheriffs-deputies-shoot-kill-13-year-20656068
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