Boy shot by police at school brain dead

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At the risk of sounding cruel,this is what he gets for pointing it at cops.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10838299/

LONGWOOD, Fla. - The 15-year-old boy shot by police while brandishing a pellet gun in a middle school bathroom was clinically brain dead Saturday but was being kept alive to harvest his organs, his family's attorney said.

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Penley, of Winter Springs, was accused of pulling the pellet gun in a classroom Friday and pointing it at other students before forcing one into a closet, then leading deputies and SWAT team members on a chase that ended in a school bathroom.

When he raised the gun at a deputy, a SWAT team member shot him, authorities said.

Officers who had responded to the 1,100-student school in suburban Orlando believed the gun was a Beretta 9mm, and didn't learn until after the shooting that it was a pellet gun.

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I was just reading an article on this. This is so frightening. I can understand the police shooting because they thought it was a real gun, but this is so sad. Why do children feel they must carry guns at all?

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Momma Angel wrote:

I was just reading an article on this. This is so frightening. I can understand the police shooting because they thought it was a real gun, but this is so sad. Why do children feel they must carry guns at all?

I have wondered the same thing.
I remember when I was in school,if you didnt like someone,you took it under the bleachers and beat the hell out of each other.
Afterwards,it was done and over.

Now,they shoot each other for a pair of sneakers.

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I feel so sorry for parents with children in school. I am sure with these kinds of things they must be questioning the safety of their children. I don't have children and can only imagine how horrible this would be for any parent.

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and some of these pellet guns look very real. There was a daisy BB gun made in the 70's that looked just like a .22 rifle. The BB barrel hole was inset about an inch from what looked like a 22 opening. If someone woulda pointed that at me I would have believed it a 22 and if I were a cop on a swat team, I am trained to take a shot in response to the nature of the threat, and Im sure the officer here had clearance from a spotter.
Shame, but its almost like the kid had a " suicide by cop" wish

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mysteryman wrote:

I remember when I was in school,if you didnt like someone,you took it under the bleachers and beat the hell out of each other.
Afterwards,it was done and over.

Now,they shoot each other for a pair of sneakers.

yup yup.

I do feel sorry for the parents in this situation. I can not imagine sending my child to school one day, only to get a phone call later by some stranger telling me she is dead.

There is a part of me that feels terrible for that cop as well.
He now has to live with being a killer. And of a child none the less.
Of course he didnt mean to, but in todays schools, if a kid raises a gun to you, they mean to shoot. They will shoot and are sometimes better shots then some cops.

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mysteryman

On this we agree..................

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What an awful story.

I admire the family for giving the kid's organs...at least SOMETHING comes out of this.

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I have a feeling that as far as the 15-year-old was concerned that once he was cornered in the lavatory, his immature reasoning chose Death before "Dishonor".

Why wasn't his father allowed to reason with him?

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