A 13-year-old was shot and killed by a police officer in Utica after a foot chase Friday evening. The bodycam video of the surprising incident has now been launched. Nyah Mway, a Burmese refugee, was one of many two juveniles stopped by the Utica Police Division’s crime prevention unit at 10.18 pm Friday. As they have been stopped, the 13-year-old ran and displayed a pellet gun, the police stated.Then he was fatally shot by the police.
“Can I simply pat you right down to ensure you’ve received no weapons on you?” officer Bryce Patterson requested Mway, as seen within the bodycam footage. Mway spoke to him in English and raised his arms earlier than rapidly operating off making three cops chase him. Then Mway pulled out what seemed to be a pellet gun and pointed it instantly on the officers.
Patterson tackled Mway to the bottom and one other officer fired a single shot. Mway was later taken to the hospital the place he died. The New York State Lawyer Common’s workplace is investigating whether or not the taking pictures was justified.
After the taking pictures, the weapon Mway flashed was decided to be a reproduction Glock and a pellet gun.
The police stated they have been searching for teenagers, suspects in latest armed robberies who have been described as “Asian males who brandished a black in coloration firearm and forcibly demanded and stole property from victims”. In one of many robberies, one of many suspects was strolling whereas the opposite was on a bicycle like Mway and his buddy as seen by the cops.
All of the three officers have been positioned on administrative depart.
The killing triggered an intense standoff between the cops and the 100 neighborhood members on the police station. Some stories claimed Nyah who simply accomplished his eighth grade was strolling house from Bible examine when cops killed him.
“Can I simply pat you right down to ensure you’ve received no weapons on you?” officer Bryce Patterson requested Mway, as seen within the bodycam footage. Mway spoke to him in English and raised his arms earlier than rapidly operating off making three cops chase him. Then Mway pulled out what seemed to be a pellet gun and pointed it instantly on the officers.
Patterson tackled Mway to the bottom and one other officer fired a single shot. Mway was later taken to the hospital the place he died. The New York State Lawyer Common’s workplace is investigating whether or not the taking pictures was justified.
After the taking pictures, the weapon Mway flashed was decided to be a reproduction Glock and a pellet gun.
The police stated they have been searching for teenagers, suspects in latest armed robberies who have been described as “Asian males who brandished a black in coloration firearm and forcibly demanded and stole property from victims”. In one of many robberies, one of many suspects was strolling whereas the opposite was on a bicycle like Mway and his buddy as seen by the cops.
All of the three officers have been positioned on administrative depart.
The killing triggered an intense standoff between the cops and the 100 neighborhood members on the police station. Some stories claimed Nyah who simply accomplished his eighth grade was strolling house from Bible examine when cops killed him.
