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Polisen kom till pojkens hem för att överlämna en stämning till pappan, men sköt istället ihjäl den tonårige sonen, då polisen trodde att Nintendo Wii-kontrollen var en pistol.
17-årige Christopher Roupe hade inget som helst med polisaktiviteterna att göra, utan pojken råkade bara befinna sig på fel plats vid fel tillfälle, vilket inte är helt ovanligt i dagens USA...
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Publicerad den 19 feb 2014
Police shoot 17 year old Georgia teen for having Wii controller in hand
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Georgia police officers serving a warrant shot and killed 17-year-old Christopher Roupe when he answered his door "armed" with a Wii remote, which the officer allegedly mistook for a gun.
The police were serving a probation violation warrant for his father, Christopher was not involved.
A witness said the trigger happy female officer who shot him allegedly started sobbing and had a breakdown after realizing what she had done.
Nonetheless, she told the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Roupe pointed a gun at her when he opened the door.
The officers involved were placed on paid leave while the state investigates.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=46540
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RT 2014-02-19
A 17-year-old high school student who wanted to be a US Marine was fatally shot by Georgia police officers who mistook the video game controller in his hand for a weapon, the lawyer representing his family says.
Christopher Roupe was preparing to watch a movie when two police officers showed up at the door to execute a probation violation against his father, according to his family.
Euharlee Police Chief Terry Hagert also stated that two officers arrived at the home on Friday night. When Roupe answered the door, the female officer believed he was pointing a gun at her and fired a single shot at the young man. The police refused to reveal the names of the officers that responded to the scene.
Roupe was a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in high school and has friends who he helped at school.
“He was a good kid. He always hung out with me and he took up for me,” friend William Corson told WSB-TV.
A funeral for Roupe is scheduled for Friday, just one day before what would have been his 18th birthday. The young man planned to join the Marines after graduating from high school.
Neighbor Ken Yates told reporters he heard the gunshot and saw the female officer seconds after.
“This is tragic. She came out of this house. She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing,” he said. “Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun.”
Chief Harget declined to identify the officer involved in order to protect her privacy, but referred all questions to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is running the probe into the incident. The officer has been placed on administrative leave – the standard measure when an officer is involved in a shooting.
Roupe’s family plans to file a lawsuit against the department, with attorney Cole Law saying the story simply “doesn’t add up.”
“We don’t know where that statement came from,” he said.
“- The eyewitness on the scene clearly stated that he had a Wii controller in his hand.
- He heard a knock at the door.
- He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest.”
Euharleee is a bedroom community of Cartersville, Georgia, with a population of under 5,000 people at the time of the 2010 US Census. Roupe was a senior at Woodland High School.
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http://rt.com/usa/police-georgia-teen-wii-remote-796/
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USA: Polis "råkade" skjuta ihjäl tonåring som öppnade dörren med TV-spel-kontroll i handen
--Attorney: Cop Kills Teen Who Answered Door While Holding Nintendo Controller--
SvaraRaderaOfficer says she thought Wii controller was a firearm
A 17-year-old was killed by police knocking on his door after he opened it while holding a Nintendo controller, according to the attorney of the late teen’s family.
Christopher Roupe died inside his home in Euharlee, Ga. Friday night after being shot by an officer who was attempting to serve a probation violation warrant for his father.
The police officer told the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that Roupe pointed a gun at her when he opened the door, but the family’s attorney, Cole Law, recently told WSBTV that the teenager was actually holding a Nintendo Wii controller.
“The eyewitnesses on the scene clearly state that he had a Wii controller in his hand,” he said. “He heard a knock at the door and asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest.”
This incident sparks memories of the 13-year-old who was shot seven times in 10 seconds by a deputy sheriff in Sonoma Co., Cali. last October after he mistook the airsoft rifle that the boy was carrying for an actual firearm.
Two of the rounds that hit the boy, Andy Cruz, proved to be fatal.
The incident took place in the middle of the day and Cruz’s plastic rifle had a transparent middle, prompting critics to contend that the officer, Dep. Erick Gelhaus, should have known the difference instead of shooting Cruz almost immediately, especially considering that Gelhaus served as his department’s armourer.
More recently, police in Yakima, Wash. shot a man in the head after mistaking his disassembled airsoft gun for a real rifle.[...]
http://www.infowars.com/attorney-cop-kills-teen-who-answered-door-while-holding-nintendo-controller/