Atlanta – The lawyer of the family of a student who was killed by the Georgia Tech police said that the official who had released the fatal shot overreacted.
The campus police killed the 21-year-old Scout SchultzWhat they say has advanced with a knife of officers. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Schultz refused to put down the knife and was aimed at officers in front of a dormitory in front of a dormitory.
Lawyer Chris Stewart told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that he believes that Schultz has a mental breakdown and does not know what to do.
Schultz 'mother, Lynne Schultz, also spoke to the newspaper. She wondered why the police did not use pepper spray or Taser. She said Schultz tried suicide two years ago.
CBS News asked state investigators whether the responding officers were wearing a masculine or an anesthetic weapon, but they had no further details.
At a press conference on Monday, Stewart reported reporters that Georgia Tech had confirmed that her officials did not wear these less fatal alternatives to firearms, which Stewart called “madness”.
The officials responded to a call about a man who wore a weapon and a knife, reports Mark Strassmann, CBS News correspondent. A video points to the police and kept what they thought was a pocket knife. Stewart described it as a “multi -purpose tool that everyone has in their car” and claimed that “the knife was not even open”.
Stewart praised some of the local officials and said that they followed him as a best practice procedure for dealing with someone in the middle of an emergency for mental health, in particular the distance between the subject and the officer, who tried to de-escalate the situation through verbal communication and set a barrier between the subject and the officer. He wondered loudly why the officer who shot Schultz decided.
“Come on, let's let it fall,” says a female officer Schultz in the video.
“Let it fall,” says a male officer Schultz.
“Shoot me,” says Schultz.
“No, let the knife fall,” says the male officer.
Schultz took a break before stepping on an officer who gave a final warning. The officer then opened the fire with a single, deadly shot.
Pictures of the scene show a small multi -purpose tool on the ground, reports Strassmann. The blade of the knife inside was folded. Schultz had no weapon.
Schultz was President of the Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech and identified himself as unnovers, which was neither male nor female.
The authorities did not identify the officials who shot Schultz.
At the press conference on Monday, Schultz 'parents described the student as “popular” on campus, had a 3.9 GPA and hoped to make biomedical devices one day.
“Now we will never know which scout might have come,” said his mother Lynne.
Schultz 'Father said that he knew that police officers are rarely convicted or convicted of killing civilians, but he wanted to know: “Why did they have to shoot? That is the only question that is important. Why did they kill my son?”
