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The suspect, Shaaliver Douse, was believed to be part of a youth gang on East 169th Street that called itself the Nine. He lived at a nearby housing project, and the police said he had been caught with a gun at least one before; his last brush with the law involved his arrest for attempted murder, after a rival gang member was shot in May. All this, the police said, at age 14.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/n...-armed-teenager-in-bronx-police-say.html?_r=0
We're asking the wrong questions here, folks. For example, we should be asking what this 14-year-old hoodlum was doing out on the streets at 3:00 AM. He was already a suspect in another shooting, was carrying a gun, which he fired several times, and the cops, naturally, shot him. So my second question is why is anyone questioning this? I mean, it's tragic that the kid died at such a young age, but it says a lot about the state of our society when a New York police commissioner has to hold a press conference in which he issues an apology for killing someone who might have been targeting his own officers. From my point of view, if he's old enough to be trying to kill people in the dead of night then he's old enough to get shot without an apology.