- NYPD: Killed Boy: Jose Luis Lebron
-Outlaw Frog Raper-
Jose Louis Lebron, an unarmed Latino boy, aged 14, was shot dead by a
police officer from the
83rd Precinct on 31 January 1990. The shooting took place in the
Bushwick area of Brooklyn at
around 5.30 pm after a man in a police patrol car identified him as
being one of two youths who had
robbed him of $10. One of the suspects was captured but Lebron ran
away and was cut off by the
patrol car. He turned to go back the other way, and was shot in the
back of the head by an officer
who said he thought he was reaching for something in the front of his
jacket. Two eye-witnesses
denied that Lebron had reached into his jacket; they said that the
officer ordered Lebron to “freeze”
then immediately fired two shots in quick succession when he kept on
walking.
In March 1990 a grand jury voted to charge the officer with
second-degree manslaughter. In
September 1990 the indictment was dismissed by a judge. The District
Attorney (DA) brought the
case before a grand jury again in 1992 but this time there was no
indictment (Lebron's attorney told
Amnesty International that the DA did not call or seek the
eye-witnesses in the case during the
second time it came before the grand jury) .
A civil lawsuit was filed on behalf of Lebron's family, which was
still pending in April 1996.
Amnesty International wrote to the Police Department to ask if any
disciplinary charges had been
brought against the officer involved but received no reply.
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Thank you for this post
I photographed the boy's funeral and was just looking at these pictures.
Do you have any more information on the civil suit?