How Very Sad

From The Brownsville Herald: Police arrived at Cummings Middle School and saw a person with a gun in a hallway near the main office: a male, about 5 foot 7, holding a black handgun, the officers say in the radio dispatch of the incident.
The Brownsville police officers entered the school and shouted that they saw the male from the front door with what appeared to be a weapon, the radio recordings show. Police officials said the male pointed the gun at officers as they repeatedly asked him to put down the weapon.
“Take him out,” a policeman yells, according to the radio records.
The sound of fired shots reverberates on the radio call. Officers quickly call for emergency medical crews.
“Subject shot,” an officer repeats on the radio call.
A Brownsville police officer fatally shot Jaime Gonzalez, an eighth-grade student at Cummings Middle School, Wednesday morning, Interim Brownsville Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez said at a press conference in the afternoon.
The weapon was later revealed to be a pellet gun, Rodriguez said.
“He was ordered several times to drop the weapon,” he said.
Officers shot the teenager with assault rifles, Rodriguez said.
Gonzalez, 15, was pronounced dead at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville. A judge has ordered an autopsy.
Gonzalez had reportedly assaulted another student before he was shot, a seemingly random act, Rodriguez said. Gonzalez was walking toward the main office after the alleged assault when an administrator saw the gun and called 911, Rodriguez said.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/police-135447-gonzalez-gun.html
One wonders what the kid was thinking when he brought the gun to school and then refused to put it down.
As a father of 2 middle school kids, the minds and hormones of the kids are raging and sometimes they don't know or don't care what the consequences are. Further, a lot these kids are playing video games where there is a lot of violence with no consequences.
Last year, a middle school student in Las Vegas took a knife and held a school secretary hostage. I saw the pictures and it was scary to see this kid, who was bigger than the secretary, holding a knife to her throat. Sometimes middle school kids do very bad things.
And with so many school shootings in the past few years, the cops had limited options but to shoot the kid. Even though the kid had a pellet gun, it looked like the real thing.
So, prayers to the family of the child. Losing a child this way has to be absolutely horrible. Also, prayers to the cops who are probably feeling horrible right now for killing such a young kid, even though the shooting is probably justified. It's just a very sad situation.