Maryland trooper shoots, kills teenager who had airsoft gun

[AProudLefty]

LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday.

The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting suspicious, Superintendent Woodrow Jones II told a news conference. The first caller said he thought the person had a gun, left a telephone number but didn’t give an address before hanging up, Jones said.

A second caller gave a street address for the suspicious person that was a short distance from the Leonardtown barracks, but the caller hung up before identifying themselves, Jones said.

Jones said the trooper, who responded alone, encountered Peyton Ham, 16, who he said had a gun and a knife. According to the superintendent, a witness said they saw Ham in the driveway of the home “in a shooting stance” and pointing a weapon at the trooper.

An investigation revealed that the weapon Ham wielded was an airsoft gun, which is commonly used to shoot BBs and which Jones called “a close representation of an actual handgun.”


He was white. Discuss.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2021/04/shooting-occurs-near-maryland-state-police-barracks/

 

[Underdog]

Airsoft guns look very very real under stress, did he remove the orange tip indicating it not a real gun?


Remember, you have the rest of your life to win a gun fight.

 

[AProudLefty]

Airsoft guns look very very real under stress, did he remove the orange tip indicating it not a real gun?


Remember, you have the rest of your life to win a gun fight.

It does not say that but you're probably correct.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

If you were a cop at say 30 to 40 feet from the suspect and they pointed this at you, what would you're immediate reaction be?

The kid was utterly and completely stupid. The cop shot him because he had reasonable belief he was being threatened with a deadly weapon.

 

[evince]

Airsoft guns look very very real under stress, did he remove the orange tip indicating it not a real gun?


Remember, you have the rest of your life to win a gun fight.

So citizens have to preform perfectly and cops are allowed to be imperfect with immunity


Fucking fascist

 

[evince]

It was suicide by cop folks

 

[Underdog]

So citizens have to preform perfectly and cops are allowed to be imperfect with immunity


Fucking fascist

Fuck you clown.



if I modify a very real looking fake gun to look very real and I start brandishing and threatening with it, how long would you wait before finding out if it's real or not?

 

[Underdog]

If you were a cop at say 30 to 40 feet from the suspect and they pointed this at you, what would you're immediate reaction be?

The kid was utterly and completely stupid. The cop shot him because he had reasonable belief he was being threatened with a deadly weapon.

exactly even if he didn't paint or remove the flash hider so it wasn't orange, head on, that thing looks very very real.


I would have opened volley.

 

[evince]

Fuck you clown.



if I modify a very real looking fake gun to look very real and I start brandishing and threatening with it, how long would you wait before finding out if it's real or not?

He wanted to die asshole

 

[Grokmaster]

" teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him"

HOW IS THAT THE OFFICER'S FAULT?

 

[evince]

exactly even if he didn't paint or remove the flash hider so it wasn't orange, head on, that thing looks very very real.


I would have opened volley.

Like the kid wanted


It was suicide by cop

 

[Turgid Member]

He wanted to die asshole

hahahah I have to interject here you two seem to be 100% in agreement.

 

[evince]

" teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him"

HOW IS THAT THE OFFICER'S FAULT?

They failed to properly access the situation

 

[AProudLefty]

" teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him"

HOW IS THAT THE OFFICER'S FAULT?

It's not about if it's his fault. It's about if the gun looked real. Big Money asked a legit question... did the boy remove the orange tip or paint over it?

 

[leaningright]

I'm sorry but an Airsoft gun with our without the orange tip looks too real to be brandishing when confronted by a law enforcement official. Sorry for the kid's family but I can't fault the officer.

 

[evince]

hahahah I have to interject here you two seem to be 100% in agreement.

Read the play by play of what happened


It was suicide by cop

 

[Turgid Member]

They failed to properly access the situation

What's to stop a person from painting the flash hider of a real m4 carbine orange?


This was a very real threat and they acted appropriately here. as you said it was "suicide by cop" I agree with you sir. the cops in this case should not have bet their life on the possibility of it being real or not.

 

[evince]

I'm sorry but an Airsoft gun with our without the orange tip looks too real to be brandishing when confronted by a law enforcement official. Sorry for the kid's family but I can't fault the officer.

Because the kid wanted to die


The cops need some more training

 

[evince]

What's to stop a person from painting the flash hider of a real m4 carbine orange?


This was a very real threat and they acted appropriately here. as you said it was "suicide by cop" I agree with you sir. the cops in this case should not have bet their life on the possibility of it being real or not.

It’s been done already

 

[Turgid Member]

It's not about if it's his fault. It's about if the gun looked real. Big Money asked a legit question... did the boy remove the orange tip or paint over it?

I think big money isn't taking into account the stress inducement in such a situation and that an all black gun with an orange tip is going to be hard to see at that distance and less noticeable under stress of the situation.