Protesters criticize the shooting of the teenager, who is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot. Investigators say he charged officers and was armed with hammer and a ‘sharp instrument.’
By Rick Rojas
January 20, 2014, 9:28 p.m.
San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators said Monday that a teenage boy who was shot by a deputy in Highland had charged toward officers wielding a hammer, later telling an officer as he was given medical treatment that he wanted to die.
Sheriff’s officials declined to release the teenager’s identity because he is a minor, but family members say he is 16-year-old Joshua Alvarez, who remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Officers from the Highland Police Department, which is operated by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, responded Saturday night to a call from someone saying that a family member had a weapon and that others in the home feared for their safety, according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.
Family members said later that Joshua was arguing with his older brother.
When deputies arrived, officials said, Joshua was walking away from the home. The deputies told him to stop and repeatedly told him to drop the hammer and a “sharp instrument” he was carrying, according to the statement. He didn’t comply and instead moved toward the deputies. One of them opened fire, injuring the teenager.
No deputies were injured.
Joshua was taken to a hospital, where he underwent surgery. Another operation is scheduled Tuesday. Family members said he was shot twice, hit in the abdomen, and doctors are still working to stop his bleeding.
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Yes we heard how a young man in Yucaipa, Ca had wrestled with a Deputy, taken his gun away, fired a shot from that weapon.
The young man was shot 12 times. 2 times by a Sergeant, 10 times by another deputy. Sergeant in his deposition said he NEVER saw a gun in the suspects hands. The deputy opened fired cause the Sergeant did, but not before he warned everyone around him he was going to shoot. Then he fire 10 times. The deputy did not see a gun either.
I believe the suspect had been shot 13 times, not 12. How is that you say, the deputy who said his gun was taken away, LIED. ON the audio tape, the deputy pretty much said, “I pulled my gun and fired it” (1st round fired).
A witness watched from her kitchen window some 15 ft away, NEVER saw any life and death struggle. When the shots were fired everyone except the suspect was standing.
The suspect NEVER had the deputy’s weapon.
So I can’t possibly believe this article. ANYONE have a video of this?
AntiCorruptionUnit
Sounds like something you would do.
That’s right Kenny. Go ahead and cry foul. Monday-morning quarterback this kid. You obviously forgot what it’s like.
#2, so brave of you to post snipes at someone whilst hiding behind anonymous.
Such a coward.
Anonymous #4
Look who’s talking Mr. Anonymous , your such a coward.
#05.
Did I miss it? I don’t see Anonymous #04 taking a shot at anyone?
Mills,
Thats all you ever do……Talk shit about people who you have never worked with so ISTFU if I we’re you
No shit talking here. Emmy finds it in his place to second guess a deputy and has no facts to support shit. Another jumping the gun by him, just as he did on the Fullerton cops. He need to stfu.
Emmy Joe? You can tell when your smoked, look at your words, the time of the day is a dead give away. LMAO!!!
James Mills you are a coward and was never out there. So shut the fuck up you pussy. You talk more shit and stay drunk. You were promoted because you were on your knees. With that said, shut the fuck up loser!
Well I doubt ken was out there either and either were you. You fuckers doubt a deputy confronted by a person with deadly instruments and immediately cry fowl because he did what he had to do and go home for the night. So, you shut the fuck up.
Oh my god, they shot him cause they thought he had a claw-hammer. It turned out to be a ball-peen hammer. Any idiot knows you can do more damage with a claw vs ball hammer.
James you drunk hypocrite you called me a murder and didn’t back it up. So now your throwing rocks at the glass house AGAIN. All these names James. You can’t physically back yourself up when your driving around in your “rascal” electric chair. Simmer down.
Sounds like overkill, bad tactics, etc. but then the SO always hires rejects from other depts. so you get the incompetent bullies you deserve.
What is the problem here?
The jury in the Kelly Thomas case made clear that it is the job of the police to kill anyone who does not fully comply into submission for any reason.
Let’s stop these foolish arguements over police restraint and focus on the real lesson. Do not call the police on any family member, neighbor, or stranger unless you feel so threatened that you are willing to see that person killed!
They hired Joe Henry and he never worked patrol. He worked as a turn key helping bathe the inmates. Gross
You make a good point Steve and that is the bottom line. More than a few citizens over the years who called to po-po only to see a beating or killing take place. And in most of those cases the reporting party lives to regret that day.
The most recent case of that, is the Kenneth Munoz case out of Yucaipa, Ca.
The FATHER called the cops because his son wouldn’t give the keys to the families company truck back to dad. So dad called the police as is usually the case.
Once the police arrived things went downhill quickly. The cover up and lies that followed are even more outrageous. His son was shot 13 times.
One thing for sure, Dad regrets ever calling 911. So yes don’t call the police thinking it’s Burger King, and you will “get it your way”.
We will soon see another case where a mom went to assist her daughter and got her teeth knocked out for not obeying commands of the cops. Those commands were not warranted or justified in the end.
This 16-year-old Joshua Alvarez probably severed to get shot.
It he was home, obediently reading his Bible… None of this would have happened. He has allot of blame in this matter.
There is a reason why the Police Agencies push and support the TeaBag movement.
The same reason Republican filth support and push the Christian movement.
They are both weapons that the people use on themselves.
They were both funded not by the people that are being attacked by them.
ACU, I may have posted this story before, But in 1976 I was a clerk working graveyard at what was then a 7-11 in Fullerton at the corner of Chapman and Euclid. We had recently been empowered with a push button silent alarm that connected straight to the Fullerton Police Department.
There was this 7-11 promotion that with any purchase you got a strarcher card so that maybe you won a prize. At that time, beer, milk, and other dairy were subject to price supports/price fixing by the California government and so it was illegal to add a prize that would alter the price. The fine print explained this and we were instructed to tell the customers that beer, milk and dairy purchases did not qualify for a scracther.
I was 20 at the time. At about 1:00am this older guy, maybe 23 or 24, comes in with his girlfriend to buy some beer. He wants a scratcher and I dutifully tell him the law and the rules. He becomes indignant threatening, and leans over the counter threatening violence as his girlfriend beems at the display of his power. I remember succintly feeling sorry for her because I knew that sooner or later she would get the brunt of his wrath.
All the while, I’m fingering the silent alarm button in my pocket. At some point I felt justified to push it. The gy took 19 to 20 sractchers from the pile on the counter and left.
A few minutes later, a Fullerton cop runs into the store. A real old guy, probably 26 or 27. When I told him the story, be became livid. “I thought you were in the midst of an armed robbery”, he told me. “I was ready to come in here and shoot whomever I encountered. Don’t ever use that silent alarm unless you want me to come in shooting!”
By the time he left, I felt like I was the criminal. I wamted to close up the store and go home, but I was working for a family friend. So I stuck it out for five more hours, and then a few more months since then.
But I have always remembered the criteria for calling the cops and remembered the Biblical referrence to Roman soldiers, “They don’t carry the sword for nothing.” I have since had a distain for those who would call the cops to try to settle petty grievences.
Yeah Steve and it’s gotten much worse since then.
Steve Brow
So at 1am a guy comes into your store , threatens you, steals scratchers,
and the cop is pissed that you called? sounds about right.
#19 you are smoking crack. Police agencies and police unions support democrates. Why? Because the police and the police unions are addicted to the government tit or more money with strings attached. Now if the federal government wants to do whatever to you, they can. The sheriff and police are bought out and corrupt. The founding Fathers would wonder when will the people rise against the tyranny. I would further say both parties have sold us down the river. Soon you will answer to the UN General and we will be under UN rule. Look if McMahon and others in this county could, they would take your guns in the name of Obama.