Texas Police Kill 8th-Grader Carrying Pellet Gun

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- An eighth-grader was shot dead by police inside his South Texas school Wednesday, and his parents are demanding to know why the officers took lethal action.

Police said the boy was brandishing -- and refused to drop -- what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly.

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Texas Police Kill 8th-Grader Carrying Pellet Gun

The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing, police said late Wednesday, several hours after 15- year-old Jaime Gonzalez was repeatedly shot in a hallway at Cummings Middle School in Brown...

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