By Martha Bellisle and Rebecca Boone | Associated press
Boise, Idaho – an autistic and non -verbal teenage child who was repeatedly fired by the Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while holding a knife died on Saturday after retiring from the life support, said his family.
Victor Pérez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had bone in a coma as a shooting on April 5, and the tests on Friday showed that he had no brain activity, said his aunt, Ana Vázquez, to Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The police in the city of Pocatello from the southwest of Idaho responded to a 911 call that reports that a man with a knife with a team knife was chasing some in a patio. It turned out to be Pérez, who was not intoxicated, but walked with a stepped march due to his disabilities, Vázquez said. The family members had their legs trying to keep the knife from the big kitchen.
The video tasks of a neighbor showed that Pérez was lying in the courtyard after falling when four officers arrived and rushed to the fence at the edge of the patio. They immediately ordered Pérez to drop the knife, but insults that he stood up and stumbled towards them.
The officers opened fire in about 12 seconds to get out of their patrols and did not make any device effort to decline the situation.
The shooting outraged Pérez’s family and Pocatello residents, and a vigil had planned his leg for Saturday morning outside the Hospital de Pocatello, where he was treated.
“Everyone tried to tell the police, no, no,” said Vázquez. “Those four officers didn’t care. They didn’t ask what was happening, what the situation was.”
“How will the fence jump when you can barely walk?” She said.
The officers, whose names have not been released, were placed on administrative license.
The decisions about whether the charges against them must be presented after an independent investigation by the Critical Incidents of the East of Idaho, said Bannock County Prosecutor, Ian Johnson, AP by email.
“When that investment is completed, a report will be presented for review,” he said. “In a continuous effort to ensure independent and objective consideration, this report will be reviewed by an agency outside Bannock County.”
The mayor of Pocatello, Brian Magazine, said in a statement on Friday, after the family announced that Pérez had no brain activity, that the thoughts and sentences of the officials were with them.
“We recognize the pain and complaint that this incident has caused in our community,” said the magazine.
Leaf said Thorsday that the city was “addressing this matter with the seriousness and thoroughness it deserves and with the appropriate respect for the seriousness of the situation.”
“Criminal, external and internal investigations with respect to the shooting involved by the officer are underway, so we cannot answer questions outside the group or interfere or compromise the investigation,” he said.
Bellisle reported from Seattle.
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