Notes on police violence
Bexar County, Texas police shoot and kill six-year-old boy
By
Trévon Austin
23 December 2017
On Thursday afternoon, four Bexar County sheriff’s deputies, firing at a fleeing woman, shot and killed six-year-old Kameron Prescott when at least one round pierced through the wall of his San Antonio-area mobile home.
Thirty-year-old Amanda Lenee Jones was attempting to break into the family’s trailer home, trying to hide from police, when she was fatally shot by four deputies. According to Sheriff Javier Salazar, Jones was holding an eight-inch long tube that looked like a weapon. One of the bullets fired at Jones went through the trailer’s wall and hit Prescott in the abdomen. He was later pronounced dead at University Hospital.
Police had been tracking Jones after a man called the sheriff’s office to report a stolen car around 11 a.m. The resulting nearly two-hour chase, during which Jones swam across a creek and fled into the woods, added two more names to the more than 1,100 individuals police have killed this year.
Kameron Prescott was home early after his elementary school released students at noon for Christmas break. Kameron, a first-grader at Wiederstein Elementary School, “was the kindest-hearted little boy that I have ever had the pleasure of teaching,” his teacher Shanda Ince said in a statement on the school district’s website.
“Kameron was a ball of energy, happy, smart and could strike up a conversation with anyone,” school counselor Maria Morales said. “He also had a great sense of humor and caring heart. He’ll be truly missed by his classmates, teachers and the Wiederstein staff.”
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