Unarmed, non-violent 14-year-old, shot 7 times by New Jersey police, but survives
TRENTON - A Trenton teen,Ā Radazz Hearns, 14,Ā was unarmed when he was shot seven times by police officers Friday night while attempting to run from the officers, a lawyer for the teenās family said Wednesday.
Hearns remains in stable condition at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton after being shot five times in the right leg, once in the left leg and has a bullet lodged in his pelvis, said the lawyer Samuel A. Anyan Jr.
Two State Police troopers and a Mercer County sheriffās officer were responding to a report of shots fired at the Prospect Village apartments when they encountered three males and say they got out of their vans toĀ āquestion them.āĀ
Rhonda Tirado, one of the witnesses, was in sitting front of her Trenton home Friday around 10:20 p.m. when she saw an unmarked gray minivan abruptly stop across the street and three police officers got out to question the trio of teens.
She saw Hearns run from the officers, and then the gunfire erupted.
āThose police were amped and they didnāt give that little boy a chance,ā Tirado said Wednesday, while re-enacting the shooting where the encounter started. āThere was no room for no chase. They just shot that little boy right there.ā
As he turned and ran, Tirado said she saw him grab his red sweatpants to keep them from falling.
āI donāt think those little boys had no clue what was going on,ā Tirado said. āI think they was at the wrong place at the wrong time.ā
The police, not really having another story to concoct, pretty much state that this is indeed what happenedāexcept, of course, they claimed that when they shot Hearns, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, they thought he was reaching for a gun in his waistband.
Except, when they got to him, he had nothing.Ā
The attorney for Radazz Hearns has stated that not only did police roll up in an unmarked vehicle, they werenāt in uniforms when they got out of the vehicle late at night.
Like magic, though, a full 12 hours after they shot Hearns seven times, police claimed to find aĀ .22-caliber handgunĀ underneath a vehicle on another street.
Rightā¦..Whatever the case, itās all garbage and this young man shouldāve never been shot in the first place.
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