Tribe: Deputy fatally shoots teen on Wisconsin reservation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 9:26 am, Thursday, November 9, 2017

ODANAH, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a Lake Superior Chippewa tribe says a sheriff's deputy has fatally shot a 14-year-old boy on the tribe's reservation in northern Wisconsin.

Bad River Band Chairman Robert Blanchard says 14-year-old Jason Pero was killed Wednesday in Odanah by an Ashland County sheriff's deputy. The Ashland County Sheriff's Office said its dispatchers received a call about a male subject walking down the street armed with a knife about 11:40 a.m. and a responding deputy fired shots, striking the suspect. The boy was pronounced dead at Memorial Medical Center in Ashland.

Sheriff's officials say the deputy involved in the shooting was not injured.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has been asked to investigate. Blanchard says state agents were at the reservation Thursday.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Boy-fatally-shot-by-deputy-in-Ashland-County-12344089.php

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[Bayard]

1. This smacks of all kinds of facts missing

[HelenWheels]

2. Wisconsin cops militarized

I live in Wisconsin and our police forces across the state think they are in the military and the citizens are enemy combatants.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Carrying a knife in the morning

execute!

What was he doing with the knife?

How could a policeman not have the power to non-fatally subdue a 14 year old armed with a knife?

Be an interesting case to watch

[PatSeg]

4. "Sheriff's officials say the deputy involved in the shooting was not injured"?

I don't think that is the first thing that most people were thinking about.

[Scarsdale]

5. Exactly.

Didn't the officer have a Taser? I thought reservations had their own, native police force?

[PatSeg]

6. This stinks to high heaven

[Judi Lynn]

7. The Latest: Mother: 8th grade son shot by deputy murdered

Updated 2:27 pm, Thursday, November 9, 2017

ODANAH, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy by a sheriff's deputy on a northern Wisconsin reservation (all times local):

2:10 p.m.

The mother of an 8th grade boy fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy on a northern Wisconsin reservation says she believes her son was murdered. Holly Gauthier tells Duluth station WDIO-TV there is no reason to justify shooting a 14-year-old boy. Gauthier says her son Jason Pero was home sick from school on Wednesday and was staying with his grandparents.

Jason's grandfather, Alan Pero, says his grandson "never had one mean bone in his body."

The Ashland County Sheriff's Office says a deputy responded to a report of a male armed with a knife and shot the person after encountering him in Odanah Wednesday. State investigators say a knife was found at the scene. Pero's family questions whether the boy had a knife.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-State-Knife-found-at-fatal-teen-12345162.php