BROWNSVILLE, Texas – 15 year old Jaime Gonzalez was shot and killed by police in a Cummings Middle School hallway for brandishing a pellet gun. According to reports, Gonzalez walked into a Cummings Middle School classroom and punched another boy in the nose. An Administrator at the school noticed Gonzalez walking towards the main office, noticed the weapon and called 911.
Police have not yet released the recording of the 911 call.
In a radio dispatch recording officers identified the student: “Subject about 5’7″, holding a handgun black in color, white shoes, blue jeans, red t-shirt, bald headed”. This identification was given by officers from the front door. You can then hear officers yell “Take him out” not long after the identification was made.
Police officials said the male pointed the gun at officers as they repeatedly asked him to put down the weapon. However, after listening to the dispatch recording not much time elapsed between the identification of the student and when officers ‘Took him out’.
Teachers locked classroom doors and turned off lights, and some frightened students dove under their desks. They could hear police charge down the hallway and shout for Gonzalez to drop the weapon, followed by several shots.
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So….what is the problem? I feel for the boy’s family. I am sorry that the boy was killed. I wish it didn’t happen.
But….
Since Columbine, there has been heightened awareness of weapons in public schools. It doesn’t matter to me if this was a pellet gun, a B-B gun, or a pea shooter. The kid brought a gun to school. The kid didn’t drop it when he was asked to. The police had a greater responsibility to protect and serve the hundreds or thousands of others attending and teaching at the school. Was it excessive use of force? Who cares? The kid didn’t do what he was told to, and he broke the rules for the school. That says it all.
If a police officer does not understand the difference between a pellet gun and something truly lethal then that cop should not be on the force. There is too much over reaction by our police today. The number of kids being blown away by risk averse cops is spiking. This incident seems inexcusable. Any self respecting beat cop should be able to get out of such a situation. Cops can’t kill children who hold pellet guns. To try and justify this is cowardly.
You obviously do not know much about pellet guns. Many types of pellet guns are black and are shaped just like .45 autos that we used in the military. At a distance, you cannot tell them apart. On top of that, a CO2 powered pellet pistol can put a pellet or BB half-way through a 4×4 board at a short distance. You can kill or seriously injure someone with a pellet gun like that. If the cops had been slow to respond and it had been a real .45 and the kid had shot into a room through one of the teachers’ locked doors and killed someone, then all the critics like you would have been complaining about how slow the cops were to respond and how incompetent they were in responding to the situation. I am sorry this boy died. I really feel for his family. But, mostly, I am grateful that no other students or teachers had to lose their lives to another “good” kid who wanted to kill someone else because they lacked self-control.
You are SOOOO right!!!
Dwimby [[[ If a police officer does not understand the difference between a pellet gun and something truly lethal then that cop should not be on the force.]]]
I watch Cops and other law enforcement shows all the time. Some of those pellet guns resemble real guns. I’ve seen them all too often. Officers are killed every day by some action from someone with a gun… How is the officer to know what is real or not when they all look alike. Unless you have walked in the same shoes as a police officer, dont be go quick to judge his actions. Why not blame the kid for NOT putting it down?
We were not there so we have to go by what has been told to us. IF the police KNEW it was a pellet gun and killed him then they are cowardly morons. If they did not and it looked real enough, then they were doing what they had to and sorry for the boy. Pellet guns are hardly deadly. So we have to know more ‘facts” before we can make an educated determination. One thing is for sure..the kid was NOT too smart. Reminds me of a time a guy pulled a gun on me and I responded by blowing the tires off his car when he tried to get away. Then he tells the police…my gun wasn’t even loaded. STUPID!
Yes, we do have to go with the story. In an emergency situation, when you know there is a kid with a gun, and you see a kid with a gun, and the kid with the gun doesn’t put it down, you shoot first and then check out the type of gun later. Even if you think you know what it is, you shoot unless you’re positive it is a toy – identified with the bright orange nozzle.
When one points a gun at a police officer, they are to respond with deadly force, not ask what kind of guy that is!! You do not shoot to wound or disable, as that means huge lawsuits!! Even we of Concealed Carry are taught that! BUT our first rule is AVOID confrontation, and Rule # 2 is escape! If we use our weapon, the prosecuting attorney will want to know why you got involved…no way to escape? if they determine there was an easy escape route, you might be on trial for murder! Someone breaking into your home is a different story! hunker down with your gun until they get inside!! otherwise if it even looks like you were looking for someone to shoot, it will go badly for you, as you would deserve!