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February 21, 2014

Family: Teen Shot Dead By Police Was Holding Video Game Controller, Not a Gun 
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In Georgia, the family of a 17-year-old ROTC student who was shot and
killed by a police officer says police mistook a video game controller
the teenager was holding for a gun. Police shot dead Christopher Roupe
on Feb. 14 when officers showed up at his mobile home to serve a
probation violation warrant for his father. Police had claimed the
teenager was pointed a gun at the time of the shooting, but the family
says a Nintendo Wii video game controller was in his hands.

 

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