Deputy Shoots Boy Playing With Water-Gun

The boy was wounded in the upper torso, said Deputy Ed Hernandez, a spokesman for the Sheriff's department.

Officials say the boy, believed to be 15-years-old, was shot around 7:55 p.m.

Sunday while he was riding his bicycle in the area of East Avenue Q11 and 20th Street East.

Deputies were responding to a burglary report when they encountered the teen.

Deputy Jeff Gordon said there were also reports that someone was riding a bicycle and brandishing a handgun in the area.

When deputies spotted the boy, they ordered him to drop the weapon but instead, Gordon says, he pointed it at the deputies.

The deputies, fearing for their lives, shot him once, Hernandez said. "Later on, they determined it was a juvenile playing cops and robbers."

The boy was airlifted to Holy Cross Medical Center for treatment in stable condition. He is expected to survive.

Officials say the gun resembled a black semiautomatic pistol and lacked the orange tip found on most toys to distinguish them from real weapons.

A neighbor said the teen is a special need student who has never caused trouble before, and said he warned the boy that his gun look a little too real.

"I warned him about the gun, it's like you don't have a red tip, you should not be waving that around," he said.

Other witnesses said the boy was among six or seven others, ages 12-to-14, riding bicycles and playing "cops and robbers."

The shooting is under investigation.

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[worldbetweenusXnoob]

police lie wayyyy too much >_>

i live with a po, and he said that a police dude doesn't usually pull out his gun on a kid, nor does he shoot,,,dumb.

wtf, where have you ever bout a real green er blue gun?

dumb cop...hope he got fired.

[webovisionca]

not only that, they probably planted the water gun on him

[8bitdemon]

take his gun away from him

[221smay]

make the cop trade his gun for a water gun

[AliaLee21]

That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard, I mean logically when there is a robbery they have a getaway CAR, not a bike. They also have a description of the robber, Which would most likely not fit this 15 year old. Cops are paranoid trigger happy assholes.

[Ninja4lifeme]

I feel bad for him and all but the cop has to do his job as you can see it was dark so the cop couldent tell a real gun from fake so when he told the kid to put it down and he dident what do you expect a cop is going to do his job

[asswipe2010]

Serves the boy right, If you point a gun at a police officer expect trouble. To bad the police man was a bad shot should of planted one in his head

[Martial024]

When I was 6 or 7 I was playing with water guns with a friend. A christian extremist didn't like it so he called the cops.

Instead of telling the guy off, the police officer said If I ever did it again he would lock me up.. Anybody who thinks that cops are saints are well, foolish.

I wish I had his name, I don't care if he was a cop, I would ambush him and kick him as hard as I possibly could right in the nuts for being such a jackass.

[SliC3oFicE]

@slowlyawakening haha time to go get a holster!

[hmmphhhindeed]

Didn't that policeman actually look to see what he was shooting???