and down goes another young black male
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Houma, La. — Louisiana State Police are heading up an investigation into a deadly shooting involving a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Deputy and a 14-year-old boy.
According to officials, the deputy was responding to a 9-1-1 call of several teenagers running into an abandoned house on Kirkglen Loop, with a weapon.
Neighbors stated that this house had been abandoned for more than a year and kids were constantly seen running in and out of it.
State police said the deputy reported encountering a group of juveniles at the home, and one was carrying a weapon and at some point the deputy opened fire, fatally wounding 14-year-old, Cameron Tillman.
Three suspects are in custody following the shooting; two juveniles and an 18-year-old. A fifth suspect escaped out the rear of the residence, according to the deputy’s initial statement.
The name of the deputy involved has not been released.
“The weapon,” which has yet to be officially identified by police, was said to be recovered “in close proximity” to the 14-year-old’s body.
Relatives claim Tillman, who was an honor roll student at Ellender High School, was shot four to five times in the back.
When reporters for WWL asked State Trooper Evan Harrell about the shots being fired in the boy’s back he claimed it was a rumor, but neither confirmed nor denied whether or not it actually happened.
Harrell was also asked if the teens fired any shots at the deputy on the scene and this question was dodged as well.
Andre Tillman, Cameron’s brother, was also inside the abandoned house at the time of the shooting. According to Andre, he said they heard somebody knocking on the door, “My little brother thought somebody was just clowning, because somebody is always clowning by the door. He opened (it) and the man just shot him. He didn’t have nothing in his hand.”
According to WWL, family and friends described Tillman as a timid and respectful teenager. He was a “tremendous athlete” starring in both basketball and football during junior high, said family friend Michael Legarde, who is a teacher at Ellender.
Legarde said Tillman and his sons were close friends for most their lives and that Tillman was taking a year off athletics to focus on his studies.
“He had heard all the hype about high school and just wanted to concentrate on his grades for the first year,” Legarde said.
Legarde said Tillman lived a few streets down from the house where he died. He added that he believed “there was no way” Tillman and the others were robbing the home because it was completely empty. He knew this because he considered purchasing the property to add to about 20 others he rents out in the neighborhood.
“I look at him as one of my sons,” he said looking out at a sea of blue lights illuminating the neighborhood. “It’s a shame. This was a good kid, never caused any trouble.”
Many questions arise from the lack of initial details released by police in this case.
Had Tillman or any of the other kids in the house fired at the deputy, it seems that we would have been told that fact immediately and this would have been reported as a justified shooting. Also, why is “the weapon” not identified? One does not need a team of scientists to look down at the ground and decide if an object is a firearm or a knife.
We will keep you updated as more
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According to officials, the deputy was responding to a 9-1-1 call of several teenagers running into an abandoned house on Kirkglen Loop, with a weapon.
Neighbors stated that this house had been abandoned for more than a year and kids were constantly seen running in and out of it.
State police said the deputy reported encountering a group of juveniles at the home, and one was carrying a weapon and at some point the deputy opened fire, fatally wounding 14-year-old, Cameron Tillman.
Three suspects are in custody following the shooting; two juveniles and an 18-year-old. A fifth suspect escaped out the rear of the residence, according to the deputy’s initial statement.
The name of the deputy involved has not been released.
“The weapon,” which has yet to be officially identified by police, was said to be recovered “in close proximity” to the 14-year-old’s body.
Relatives claim Tillman, who was an honor roll student at Ellender High School, was shot four to five times in the back.
When reporters for WWL asked State Trooper Evan Harrell about the shots being fired in the boy’s back he claimed it was a rumor, but neither confirmed nor denied whether or not it actually happened.
Harrell was also asked if the teens fired any shots at the deputy on the scene and this question was dodged as well.
Andre Tillman, Cameron’s brother, was also inside the abandoned house at the time of the shooting. According to Andre, he said they heard somebody knocking on the door, “My little brother thought somebody was just clowning, because somebody is always clowning by the door. He opened (it) and the man just shot him. He didn’t have nothing in his hand.”
According to WWL, family and friends described Tillman as a timid and respectful teenager. He was a “tremendous athlete” starring in both basketball and football during junior high, said family friend Michael Legarde, who is a teacher at Ellender.
Legarde said Tillman and his sons were close friends for most their lives and that Tillman was taking a year off athletics to focus on his studies.
“He had heard all the hype about high school and just wanted to concentrate on his grades for the first year,” Legarde said.
Legarde said Tillman lived a few streets down from the house where he died. He added that he believed “there was no way” Tillman and the others were robbing the home because it was completely empty. He knew this because he considered purchasing the property to add to about 20 others he rents out in the neighborhood.
“I look at him as one of my sons,” he said looking out at a sea of blue lights illuminating the neighborhood. “It’s a shame. This was a good kid, never caused any trouble.”
Many questions arise from the lack of initial details released by police in this case.
Had Tillman or any of the other kids in the house fired at the deputy, it seems that we would have been told that fact immediately and this would have been reported as a justified shooting. Also, why is “the weapon” not identified? One does not need a team of scientists to look down at the ground and decide if an object is a firearm or a knife.
We will keep you updated as more
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/lo...r-old-honor-roll-student/#XKou1qZIPZRio0me.99
Allergic2Latex
I Got Juice
It's a dirty dirty world and it keep on turning 
RIP
RIP
3 "suspects" in custody, yet the only one doing dirt is sleeping in his own bed, probably like a baby.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
When will my people ever know peace!?
And watch the mods move this to the race track cause this reality of inequality and injustice makes people uncomfortable. I'm sick of this....
RIP.
And watch the mods move this to the race track cause this reality of inequality and injustice makes people uncomfortable. I'm sick of this....
RIP.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
Motherfcuk America and these goddamn cops. I'm gonna celebrate when the next cop gets his brains blown out...that's for sure.
#1 gang in America is the police. most crimes committed. most innocent folks killed.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
They say it was a black cop too,
These cops are all the same in my book.
Black, brown, yellow, white, male, female, they are ALL the enemy of black people.
cole phelps
Superstar
this shyt needs to end
And people wonder why there are celebration threads when cops get killed
