The teenager eliminated by deputies in Victorville Tuesday was a foster youth experiencing a psychological health concern,
San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus revealed in a Wednesday morning press conference.
The 17-year-old kid, whose identity has not been launched, was a homeowner of Hesperia, though he had actually been involuntarily committed using a 5150 hold three days before the fatal encounter after he cut his wrists.
While being carried from a local healthcare facility to a psychological care center, the teen "absconded" from healthcare and appeared at the home of his 2 sisters, who are likewise in the foster care system but who live in a separate home in Victorville, Dicus said.
The sis' moms and dads reported the teen as a trespasser, however he locked himself in a restroom inside the home.
Armed with a knife, the young boy threatened to hurt himself, and offered the small area, deputies were unable to utilize stun weapons.
Rather, after half an hour of attempting to deescalate the circumstance, they utilized pepper spray and attempted to physically take the boy into custody, with deputies yelling at the young boy to "let go of the knife." One deputy was sliced on the hand in the process.
Throughout the fracas, one deputy opened fire, according to Dicas and validated by body camera video.
Dicas grieved the "substantial tragedy" that happened while encouraging the general public to "recognize we can do better with" psychological health crises.
The constable said not only is his department working to enhance their actions to these issues, but he thinks Gov. Gavin Newsom and the just recently passed Proposition 1, which permits the state to obtain up to $6.4 billion to develop mental care centers, are actions in the right direction.
" The overriding problem here that we require to be focusing on as a society, and this remains in lockstep with Proposition 1 and what the guv has mentioned, we have a psychological health crisis on our hands, not simply in this county, however in the whole state," he stated.
Dicas also referenced a couple similar incidents in which his deputies killed teenagers, stating that the 15-year-old autistic boy who charged deputies with a bladed garden tool in March was going through a similar psychological health crisis before he was eliminated.
Dicus differentiated this current shooting, nevertheless, from the shooting of 15-year-old Savannah Graziano, who was killed by deputies in 2022 as she tried to leave her daddy, who had actually abducted her and killed her mom.
He also referenced the current video of a deputy seen punching and kneeing an individual in the head after they had actually been restrained by deputies.
These events and the deputies' actions throughout them are under examination, and Dicus stated due to "legal intricacies," he's restricted in what he can say about some of them. That stated, criminal and administrative examinations are underway.
" I implore the general public to please let [the Department of Justice] do their review and overcome the procedure and the system," he stated.
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