[Vision2020] Cops shoot and kill man holding toy gun in Walmart

[Paul Rumelhart]

Here is the link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/cops-shoot-and-kill-man-holding-toy-gun-walmart

Here is a link for the gun in question:
http://www.crosman.com/airguns/rifles/pump/30110

Cops shoot and kill man holding toy gun in Walmart
08/09/14 05:16 PM—Updated 08/09/14 05:49 PM
By Nisha Chittal <http://www.msnbc.com/person/nisha-chittal>


 A young man holding a toy rifle in a Walmart was shot and killed on
Tuesday by police in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, Ohio, according to Raw
Story
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/08/cops-gun-down-ohio-man-holding-toy-rifle-in-walmart-like-he-was-not-even-human/>.
John Crawford, 22, was carrying a toy gun he picked up in the store,
alarming two other shoppers.

LeeCee Johnson, the mother of Crawford’s children, told the *Dayton Daily
News *
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/man-police-shot-in-walmart-killed-over-fake-gun-fa/ngw77/>she
was on the phone with him while he was browsing in the store. “We was just
talking,” she told the Ohio newspaper. “He said he was at the video games
playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns
were. And the next thing I know, he said ‘It’s not real,’ and the police
start shooting and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the
ground because they had shot him. And I could hear him just crying and
screaming. I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.”

CBS reports
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/source-walmart-gunman-was-carrying-toy-rifle/>that
two other Walmart customers, April and Ronald Ritchie, saw Crawford walking
around the store with what appeared to be a gun and called the police. The
police station reports that officers asked Crawford to put down the weapon,
and opened fire when he did not comply. He later died of his gun shot
wounds at a nearby hospital, where his death was ruled a homicide by the
Montgomery County coroner’s office. A request for comment by msnbc to the
Beavercreek police department was not immediately returned.

The Ohio Attorney General’s office has said
<http://www.whio.com/news/news/report-shooting-beavercreek-wal-mart/ngwTS/>that
the gun Crawford was carrying was an MK-177 BB/Pellet rifle, also known as
a “variable pump air rifle.” Family members could not be reached for
comment by msnbc.

Tasha Thomas, who identified herself as Crawford’s girlfriend, told the *Dayton
Daily News *
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/man-police-shot-in-walmart-killed-over-fake-gun-fa/ngw77/>that
she drove Crawford to the Walmart and was also in the store, but was in a
different aisle from Crawford when the shooting happened. He was not armed
when he entered the store, she said. “He did not have any type of gun on
him. It’s not fair.”

A relative told the paper the family had contacted the NAACP and the
National Action Network, a civil rights group led by MSNBC’s Rev. Al
Sharpton.
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