Police to Release Body Camera Footage of Officer Fatally Shooting 14-Year-Old Black Boy
DENVER (AP) Police in suburban Denver on Friday planned to release body camera footage showing an officer fatally shooting a 14-year-old Black boy they say was armed with a semiautomatic handgun.
JorDell Richardson was shot June 2 after a struggle on the ground with police who chased him from a store in Aurora, where he and a group of other teens are suspected of stealing vaping cartridges, authorities said. In a news conference soon after the shooting, police Chief Art Acevedo said one officer could be heard on the body camera footage saying let go of the gun, but he did not say where the gun was at the time.