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According to a video released Friday, a police officer charged with investigating a car burglary killed the 14-year-old suspect and killed him, according to the video broadcast on Friday
. Tempe police officer Sylvia Moir asked people to suspend her judgment
"I must begin by expressing my condolences to the young man's family. The loss of one's life is tragic, "Moir said at a press conference. "I'm so sorry for their loss."
Police claim that the boy, identified by his family as Antonio Arce, was carrying a replica of a handgun when he was shot dead Tuesday by an officer identified as Agent Jaen. .
Interviews and a vigil this week, family members have called for justice.
A video of a camera on the body shows Jaen arriving in a car and parking in an alley after an alleged burglary. He sees the suspect in a gray van facing his squad's car and crouches behind a large black plastic barrel.
"Hey," Jaen said, raising his handgun as the suspect exited the passenger side of the truck. starts running in the driveway lined with a wooden fence, a chain link and a concrete block.
"Let me see your hands," Jaen yells and fires twice as the suspect runs away.
"A shot, a shot" the officer screams as he pursues the teenager in the driveway.
"He has a handgun, he has a handgun," Jaen shouts later.
The video no longer shows the suspect after he disappeared from view. [19659002] It is impossible to know if the suspect is carrying a handgun, but he seems to hold in his hand something in an enlarged still picture that the department took from the video and showed it to the press conference.
Moir one of the two shots hit the teenager in the area of the shoulder blade back and the other hit a wall. She added that two independent witnesses had seen the suspect running in the alley with a gun in his hand and that a gun replica had been found on him. Police said that the replica of the weapon had been taken into the vehicle with other objects.
Arce died at the hospital
The police chief stated that Jaen had been an officer for 17 years, including 14 in Tempe. He was put on administrative leave. Jaen made a combat tour to Iraq for the National Guard of the Army.
Arce's Facebook page showed photographs of a baby-faced boy with a peach-colored mustache and some pictures of relatives and friends. Friends prepared a GoFundMe page to pay the funeral expenses.
A vigil was held Thursday outside the Tempe Police Headquarters. The ministry announced that it would conduct its investigation in conjunction with prosecutors, which is usual in shootings involving officers.
Since the beginning of the year, at least one other police has killed a teenager in Arizona's largest county. Earlier this month, a Phoenix policeman killed and killed 19-year-old Jacob Michael, after security agents saw him and three other people carried out an armed robbery. Police said they were watching the group because they were suspected of having participated in several other robberies.
Also this month, a policeman from Peoria, a Phoenix neighborhood located in the suburbs of Phoenix, injured a 17-year-old boy after calling him. car supply store. The officers said the boy had a gun. He was hit in the shoulder.
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