Former Virginia high school player shot dead in altercation
A former high school football player in Virginia was reportedly shot and killed by an off-duty police officer after an altercation in the parking lot of a car wash early Saturday morning.
Paterson Brown Jr., a former standout at James River High School in Midlothian, Va., was 18.
According to WTVR-TV in Richmond, Va., Brown and some friends pulled into the Better Vision car wash and parked behind the officer, who works for the Richmond Police Department and was having his car washed. Witnesses told WTVR that Brown got out of his vehicle and jumped into the front seat of the officer’s vehicle. He then drove the vehicle out of the car wash.
At that point, the off-duty officer reportedly told Brown to get out of the car multiple times. According to the Chesterfield Police Department, which is investigating the shooting, surveillance video shows that the off-duty officer physically struggled with Brown during the confrontation. Brown did not get out of the car, and eventually the policeman pulled out his gun and shot him once.
“During the confrontation, the suspect was shot and he was transported to Chippenham Hospital, where he later died,” a police spokesman said on Monday.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting, the spokesman told the New York Daily News.
“(The off-duty officer) didn’t want to do it,” a witness told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “He tried and tried to get him out.”
Brown was not armed during the incident.
The kid doesn’t get out of the car so he gets shot. So f’ed up
Shooting someone is never the answer
I would agree as REPORTED that this did ot warrant a shooting. But to say “Shooting someone is never the answer.” That is just stupid. Let someone pull a gun on me or my family, or rape my daughter or wife, and they will be 6 feet under.
I agree completely but to shoot an unarmed person is what I meant initially
How would the police officer know he was unarmed? He obviously didn’t pat the guy down.
He’s attempting to steal a police car. If I saw someone stealing my car out in front of my house you can bet I’d come out the front door guns blazing.
Let some random dude get in my car and try to drive off. If I’m anywhere near my vehicle he’s getting shot. If he dies in the process, oh well. It’s no different than me shooting someone who’s trying to steal something out of my house or off my property. Idk the VA laws, but in MS the car is an extension of the home.
Virginia doesn’t have stand your ground laws. Unless your life is legitimately in danger you cannot use deadly force.
Until you know the whole story, don’t comment on what should or shouldn’t be done. Sure, from this report, it sounds like the guy shouldn’t have shot him. Reporters also told us Auburn would be SEC West contenders. Let’s get the whole story first. Either way, its a sad ending to a kid’s life.
Sad story, but doesn’t belong on this website. Tell me about Saban’s sleepless nights as he sees Fournette break tackle after tackle and sprints to the tune of Chariots of Fire down the sideline with shades of Al Bundy smiling at him as he goes by.!!
Soooooo, explain to me how this has anything to do with the SEC or football. He played football, is that the only connection? Was he a top recruit? If I want to read a story about some idiot thug trying to steal a car and getting shot in the process, I’ll start following TMZ. I instead would like to read about stuff relevant to football on this site.
At what point did society change and excuse behavior like attacking the police and carjacking, but when the response includes deadly force, oh, now it’s police brutality, and the young thug isn’t the problem. I don’t care if it’s me, my brother, son, whoever…if you attack the police, steal sh1t, whatever crime is your forte, the consequences might be deadly. SIMPLE: if you don’t want to get shot, don’t steal sh1t and don’t commit violence. You’re free to make choices, but you’re not free from the consequences.
If more people thought like you this nation would be a better/safer place.
Why post this here? Because he was a former football player? Stop this. I am trying my hardest to stick around but at this point, it’s like you people want to drive your readers away with a lot of bad writing and irrelevant pieces like this. I don’t get it.
This beer I’m about to drink is to SDS and it getting back to what it’s meant to be… mostly quality writing, or at least a few minutes worth of researching before writing.
Some of these police shootings are more like acts of Darwinism than police brutality. This is grand theft auto with a police car, If you did this with anyone’s car let alone a police car you might get shot. I’m not denying police brutality, but some of these shootings are a result of moronic actions.