Posted on 02/20/2014 4:45:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Christopher Roupe, 17, was shot by a Euharlee police officer on Friday when he answered the door. Police say he was pointing a handgun, not the video game device. Roupe was an aspiring Marine, his family said.
A Georgia teen who dreamed of being a Marine was killed by police at his front door while wielding only a Wii remote, the family lawyer claims.
Christopher Roupe, 17, of Euharlee was felled by a single police bullet when an unidentified officer arrived at the family mobile home to execute a probation violation warrant against his father, authorities said.
Meanwhile, police assert that the teen pointed a gun directly at the female officer, prompting her to blast the boy in the chest.
The circumstances of the tragic shooting last Friday night are under reviewed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, according to reports.
“It just doesn't add up,” family attorney Cole Law told WSBTV. “He heard a knock at the door. He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest.” Roupe, 17, was a member of the ROTC at Woodland High School and was planning to sign up for the Marines, his friends said.
“He was a good kid,” his pal William Corson told WSBT.
Euharlee police said two officers arrived at roughly 7:35 p.m. and Roupe answered the door with a gun drawn — contradicting the lawyer and witness claims that he was unarmed, expect for the video game device.
The officer, who has been placed on administrative leave, broke down after she realized that she had shot the teen at point-blank range, witnesses said.
“She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing,” Ken Yates told WSBT. "Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun and in my opinion I think he was playing a game with his neighborhood buddies."
Roupe was transported to a hospital in Cartersville where he was pronounced dead. The result of the investigation will be forwarded to the district attorney’s office, police said.
Police directed all questions regarding the shooting to the GBI. A spokeswoman for the unit did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A spokeswoman for the family directed all inquiries to their attorney, who could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.
She said as she put her head in her hands and sobbed.
This occurred days ago and this government agency declines to talk about it?
They know the players, they already have the witness statements, they've already collected the evidence....Where do the get the authority or the contemptible arrogance to decline to speak about it? Do they not work for us? Why is this a secret?
They said the teen had a gun at the door...Ok, then where is it? Why have they not confirmed that in a news conference?
Why, according to reports, are the witnesses saying different, that he did not have a gun?
Are they stonewalling hoping they bury the kid quickly? Are they hoping interest in this brutal incident just dies off before going public?
How come in other events the cops, the mayor and all the elected special people are the first ones to run to the cameras for their pat on the back praise fests?
This happened many days ago....Where is statement or news conference about what happened?
I wonder how far the pigs are going to take this lie.
Is there a difference?
If no gun was found, the office who shot the young man has some serious explaining to do.
A Wii remote looks about as much like a gun as a breadstick.
“Soon it will be open season on cops.”
Brother (or sister), I hope you’re being facetious but I think you are more on than you believe. There are so many laws on the books these days that no matter what you’re doing you could be considered in violation of something if a cop decided to deem it so at a given time. In that environment we are all only walking free so long as some cop having a bad day doesn’t come along and arrest us or worse for any etheraal reason they have at the moment.
GA ping. This is up about 10 miles west of Cartersville.
Does anyone have statistics for shootings per female officer as opposed to male officers?
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
yep — all of the above
“when an unidentified officer arrived at the family mobile home to execute”
It looks to me thats exactly what she set out to do!
Maybe, if the family had a dog, that would have been suffice.
May God Bless Christopher Roupe and ease the family’s pain!
Whose life is ruined? The boy is dead and gone. The cop will be cleared, decorated, and promoted and in addition, she now has street creds. So, again, which two lives?
As far as they need to.
Holy s**t, the family’s lawyers must be on cloud 9 right about now. As in someone buying their first lottery ticket and winning a 130 million dollar powerball game jackpot.
What I have to help notice is that the numbers of wholly unqualified folks serving as police is going up at a truly scarily high rate. So when agitators, including, to be sure, some right here on FR, call for more morality laws, I have to ask, what makes you conceivably think the police we have now are anywhere near prepared to enforce laws we have now, much less any new laws?
Predict she is a prime candidate for suicide in the future.
I don’t know what you mean by morality laws, but I don’t think we need any more laws and we certainly don’t need any more cops like this ditzy dame.
She was upset, but she did get to go home, so all is well. Right? right????
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