Details Come Out About 13-Year-Old Black Boy Shot by Police

Details Come Out About 13-Year-Old Black Boy Shot by Police
Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs holds up a photo showing the type of BB gun that police say a 13-year-old boy pulled from his waistband just before he was shot (Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
The Associated Press
9/16/2016
Updated:
9/16/2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio—As authorities investigate the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old black boy, Tyre King, by a white Columbus police officer after a report of an armed robbery, details are emerging about him. Here’s a look:

SCHOOL

Tyre was an eighth-grader at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy, a Columbus city school on the north side, a few miles from where the shooting happened. The school has about 500 students in grades 7-12 and focuses on science, technology, engineering and math. Several police officers were at the school Thursday, and counselors were available to talk to students.

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FAMILY

Attorney Chanda Brown, who represents the boy’s family, said “the family is obviously distraught by the murder of Tyre.”

Tyre had three sisters and a baby brother, said another family attorney, Sean Walton.

“He loved his family,” Walton said. “He was loved.”

In this frame from video, police work at the scene of a shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Police in Ohio responding to a report of an armed robbery shot and killed a boy who they said pulled a gun from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun. (WSYX via AP)
In this frame from video, police work at the scene of a shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Police in Ohio responding to a report of an armed robbery shot and killed a boy who they said pulled a gun from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun. (WSYX via AP)

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ACTIVITIES

A friend and former neighbor said Tyre often hung out and played basketball at a neighborhood recreation center. Nineteen-year-old Eisha Roberts called him “caring and lovable.”