Latest Poster Boy For “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Ripped Off Gun Moments Before Being Shot

By Bob Owens

Justus Howell’s family is trying vainly to assert that the young man shot twice by Zion, Illinois police was a good kid with dreams of becoming a surgeon.

That illusion is taking a beating, now that police have revealed that Howell allegedly stole the weapon that was in his possession at the time of his shooting via strong-arm robbery just moments before police arrived.

A Waukegan teenager had just stolen a handgun from another man [Tramond Peet] when he was shot and killed by Zion police during a foot chase, authorities said late Monday.

The man told police he had …read more

Via:: Bearing Arms