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Brooklyn Weapon Carried By Teen Results In Cop Shooting Him

By Conaway and Strickler

The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on February 10, 2009 that a NYPD police officer who just graduated from the police academy had shot and wounded an 18 year old Brooklyn man, Akeem Harvey. According to police and witness reports, the NY violent crime happened outside an R&R grocery store in Brownsville at around 2:30pm. Officers from the 67th precinct stopped Harvey who they say was acting nervous, fiddling with his waistband then dashing north on Winthrop St. An unidentified woman said, ?The cops were searching the boy outside the store and he started running. The Police started chasing after him. I heard a shot. And he was down around the corner. I started crying and praying.? Harvey was running home when a .357 magnum revolver fell from his body and he picked it up and pointed it at the police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).