Lawyer for family of 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson accuses police department of withholding the information to avoid angering the community
DENVER (AP) — A Black teen fatally shot by an officer was armed with a pellet gun and not a semiautomatic handgun, police in suburban Denver revealed Friday.
Jor’Dell Richardson, 14, was shot June 2 after a struggle on the ground with officers who chased him from a store in Aurora, where he and a group of other teens were suspected of stealing vaping cartridges, according to authorities.
Police had originally said that the teen had a semiautomatic, but Chief Art Acevedo corrected that during a press conference held to release today!
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