NewsDecember 31, 2006
St. Louis teen shot by police officer
ST. LOUIS -- A teenager was shot to death by police after pointing a pistol at an officer and refusing orders to drop it, authorities said. Relatives identified the teen as Jeremy Robinson, an eighth-grader at Turner Middle School whose age was variously given at 14 or 15. He died Friday about one block from his home...
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ST. LOUIS -- A teenager was shot to death by police after pointing a pistol at an officer and refusing orders to drop it, authorities said.
Relatives identified the teen as Jeremy Robinson, an eighth-grader at Turner Middle School whose age was variously given at 14 or 15. He died Friday about one block from his home.
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Family members said they didn't believe that Robinson had a weapon. An aunt, Teresa Adams, said the teen had left home about 15 minutes earlier to go to a nearby liquor store.
and she did not know why he was in the pickup.
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