No charges against officers who fatally shot suicidal teen
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January 26, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — No charges will be filed against police officers who shot and killed an apparently suicidal teenager in Grandview last year, the Jackson County Prosecutor's office said.
The officers shot 17-year-old Lantz Stephenson Jr. several times at a park on May 16 after he pointed a BB gun that looked like a weapon at them, investigators said.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a letter Jan. 7 that the officers' actions "were within the scope of their legal authority" as Missouri law enforcement officers, The Kansas City Star reported.
Baker's letter, based in pa...
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