| Bladewire |
12-24-2017 05:41 PM |
Today Cop Fatally Shoots 6-Year-Old In His Home While Firing At Suspect
A Texas community is grappling with the death of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in his home Thursday as sheriff?s deputies shot at a woman they were chasing outside. Deputies also killed the woman.
The boy, Kameron Prescott, was hit in the abdomen by a stray bullet that went through the wall of his mobile home in the city of Schertz. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, The San Antonio Express-News reports. Four Bexar County Sheriff?s deputies were pursuing a female suspect, who was identified by her family as 30-year-old Amanda Lenee Jones. Police said the woman they were chasing was suspected of stealing a car. There is no known connection between Jones, Prescott or his family.
Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a Friday news conference (below) that deputies opened fire on the woman after she forced her way into the home where Prescott lived and threatened people inside. He said she went back outside and threatened deputies with an object that they believed to be a ?weapon.?
Investigators have not recovered any firearms from the scene, but they did find a ?tubular object? that they now believe was the item deputies mistook for a gun. At the conference, Salazar called what happened a ?tragic accident.?
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