Posted on 02/08/2013 12:10:14 PM PST by Red Badger
BOTHEL -- A security guard shot a 15-year-old boy at a Food and Drug Administration regional facility in Bothell early Friday, according to police.
Bothell Police Captain Denise Langford said it was not immediately clear why the guard fired at the boy at about 7 a.m. in the parking lot of the FDA's Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest.
The teenager got into a car after he was hit by gunfire and crashed into another vehicle about a mile away on the Bothell-Everett Highway, said Sgt. Cedric Collins of the Bothell police.
He was taken to Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover, Collins said.
People who were in the area at the time of the shooting said they heard multiple gunshots, and tire tracks could been seen leading from the street in front of the building and across a grassy median.
Northshore School District's Secondary Academy for Success was placed in a modified lockdown due to the nearby police activity.
Langford said the guard who fired at the boy is employed by a company contracted by the FDA to provide security at the laboratory, which is located at 22201 23rd Drive SE.
Police have cordoned off the area while they investigate.
Now they don’t have 1 million bullets anymore.
I would wager that there is much more to this story than is now being told.
What kind of FDA labratory facility was it? Do they test drugs there that the kids wanted to steal? Evidence in a federal case that they wanted to tamper with?
http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/FieldScience/ucm258929.htm
So what was “suspicious” about the vehicle? (The guard indicated he was about to investigate a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot.)
He’d better have a damned good excuse for not only drawing his weapon, but using it on a 15 year old..........
Musta mistaken him for Chris Dorner...
he probably didn't have the opportunity to check the kids' I.D.
Drug testing lab that might be testing vaccines against lethal organisms such as anthrax are a possibility . The labs website state they are able to test for such things as mycotoxins which IIRC were the stuff that was known as “Yellow Rain “ a soviet bio-chemical weapon.
Hmmmm...not immediately clear? Did anybody ask? Or has he lawyered up?
To little is known about what the “kid” was doing and why the guard felt the need to use deadly force at someone who was fleeing. Usually deadly force isn't used to stop a fleeing person unless the “officer” thinks that they may have committed a felony. They don't shoot fleeing smokers or jay-walkers (at least not yet).
It was around 7 a.m. when two security officers approached a teen acting suspiciously in the building's parking lot, said Shari Ireton with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.
The teen ran away, but then came back a short time later and got into a car in the parking lot. As the security officers approached the car, the teen backed out and struck one of the security officers, who in turn fired at the car, Ireton said.
Bothell Police Sgt. Cedric Collins said earlier the teen crashed into another vehicle about a mile away on the Bothell-Everett Highway, but Ireton said officers found the teen at a home.
The teen had a gunshot wound to his foot and minor cuts to his face, Ireton said. He was taken to a a local hospital for treatment and was later released into police custody.
People who were in the area at the time of the shooting said they heard multiple gunshots, and tire tracks could been seen leading from the street in front of the building and across a grassy median.
Northshore School District spokeswoman Leanna Albrecht says the 15-year-old is a student at the Secondary Academy for Success, an alternative high school adjacent to the FDA office building.
The school was placed in a modified lockdown after the shooting due to the nearby police activity.
Langford said the guard who fired at the boy is employed by a company contracted by the FDA to provide security at the laboratory, which is at 22201 23rd Drive S.E.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130208/NEWS01/702089863#Teen-shot-by-guard-outside-FDA-building-in-Bothell
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the foot by a security guard during a confrontation Friday morning outside a federal building.
By Friday afternoon, the teen already had been treated at an area hospital, and was booked into the Denny Juvenile Justice Center in Everett for investigation of assault.
The gunfire broke out shortly after 7 a.m. in the parking lot at the Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest office. The Food and Drug Administration site is used to test food products for pesticides and other substances.
Two contract security officers saw somebody in the parking lot. That person ran away as officers approached, then returned and got into a car, said Shari Ireton, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
The officers were approaching the vehicle, when the person behind the wheel backed out and struck one of the officers, Ireton said. The security officers shot at the car. Bothell police already had been alerted that security officers were approaching someone in a suspicious vehicle in the agency’s parking lot, Bothell police Sgt. Cedric Collins said.
“Shortly after that, we received a second call from the FDA advising that shots were fired,” Collins said. “They advised that a 15-year-old boy was shot by security personnel.”
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The teen is a freshman at the Northshore School District’s Secondary Academy for Success, an alternative school, district officials said. The campus shares a driveway with the district’s maintenance and operations building. It is a couple of blocks away from the FDA site.
“15-year-old is a student at the Secondary Academy for Success, “
Definitely having difficulty with that concept.../s;)
According to the labs web site they are also testing gadgets for rapid pathogen identification — think Homeland Security germ warfare early warning apparatus making germ weapons is against U.S law but research into defense measures is allowed.
This young man certainly sounds like he had a chip on his shoulder and as such it would not be surprising if he didn’t try to run over the guards with the car, that he was too young to be driving. Oh, well I am sure it was just all a mistake (NOT!).
The Bothell FDA facility does not have drugs there that the boy would have wanted to steal. Even if they did, it would be easier for the boy to get a hold of pain meds from some terminal ill person or find some street drugs than to try and risk the security. I don’t know what the boy’s background was. If he was a drug addict, he could have gotten some help for his problem instead of getting shot.
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