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Baltimore Police Shoot 14-Year-Old Boy with BB Gun

HeadlineApr 28, 2016

In Baltimore, police have shot and wounded a 14-year-old African-American boy carrying a toy gun on the first anniversary of the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died from injuries sustained in police custody. On Wednesday, plainclothes police officers began chasing 14-year-old Dedric Colvin after they spotted him with a BB gun. Police say the officers opened fire, striking him, as he ran away. His mother says he was shot in the leg and in the shoulder. He is expected to recover. This comes two days after Cleveland officials agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old African-American boy who was fatally shot by police in 2014 while playing with a toy pellet gun in a park.

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