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Police shootings of children spark renewed calls for training on adolescents in crisis
The long-standing question of how fatal police shootings of children could be avoided and lives spared has engulfed the nation in recent weeks.
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Children draw on paper at a protest held outside Columbus, Ohio, City Hall on April 25, 2021. People were rallying against the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant. Photo for The Washington Post by Maddie McGarvey
Stavian Rodriguez squeezed his 15-year-old body through the drive-through window of the Okie Gas Express convenience store, poking his hands out first so police could see that they were empty. He jumped to the ground, holding his hands in the air, then lifted his shirt to reveal a gun tucked into his front waistband. Using the tips of his thumb and index finger, Rodriguez gently pinched the end of the barrel far from the trigger and dropped
A teenager will do prison time after a convenience store robbery last year turned deadly.
The Oklahoma County district attorney dismissed a felony murder charge against Wyatt Cheatham, 17, for the death of Stavian Rodriguez on Monday. In exchange, the teenager was sentenced as an adult for armed robbery. Rodriguez was shot and killed by Oklahoma City police in November following the robbery.
News 9 was there as Cheatham was escorted back to the Oklahoma County Detention Center after the hearing.
News 9:
“Wyatt, do you have anything to say about the DA dropping the murder charge? Are you glad?”
Cheatham did not have a response to the question, but his attorney Richard Rice said the charges have weighed heavy on the teenager.
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