Thread: San Diego: Teen driver killed in confrontation during traffi

Jean: Many toy guns are very good copies of real ones. It makes it hard for a police officer to be able to tell and they can't take the chance with their own safety especially at night. I was on a call where the neighboring county deputy saw a teenager point a gun at another and he stopped to check it out after notifying our county. He pulled his gun on the teen and the teen told him that it was a fake gun and dropped it. When we arrived we looked at the gun and it was a very good replica of a real one. We told the teen he was lucky the officer didn't shoot him.

Oh I understand swatchick. Police officers can't tell the difference between a toy and the real thing. I don't blame them at all for this. Just thought it sad such a young boy went and did such a stupid thing which ended his life.

Unfortunately he was not the first or will be the last. Pulling or showing any gun real or fake to a police officer is really dumb. The police officer has to live with that for the rest of his life knowing that the kid had a fake gun even though it looked real.

Police ID officers who shot teen during traffic stop

By: North County Times Wire Services -
Last modified Monday, February 12, 2007 7:46 PM PST

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Police Department today publicly identified two of its officers who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop in Emerald Hills this weekend.

Jack R. Pearson, who has been on the force for 11 1/2 years, and Louis P. Galante, an 18-year veteran, were the officers who opened fire Saturday on Noe Rojas, according to police information officer Det. Gary Hassen.

The lawmen were patrolling in the 5600 block of Kenwood Street at 10:45 that night when they saw a sport utility vehicle go through a stop sign at Pyramid and Kenwood streets, said Capt. Mary Cornicelli of the SDPD Homicide Unit.


The officers confronted Rojas -- the driver -- in a driveway about a block away, and one of them noticed what appeared to be a handgun on the front seat, she said.

When one of the officers grabbed Rojas' wrists to keep him from reaching for the object, he backed up the SUV into the police car, then pulled forward toward the garage door. The officers, believing they were in immediate jeopardy, shot Rojas, who died at the scene, Cornicelli said.

Cornicelli could not say whether a weapon was found in the SUV.

An unidentified woman told reporters that Rojas was not a U.S. citizen and may have tried to escape because he feared being deported. She described the shooting as "excessive force and unneeded."

The San Diego police homicide unit was investigating the shooting.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/02 ... _12_07.txt



Authorities investigate at the site of an officer-involved shooting Saturday night.

well skip ,that cleared alot of missing info for me
Thank You from me