
A state trooper shot and killed a 16-year-old armed with a knife and airsoft gun, Maryland authorities say
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A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said.
The shooting is the latest incident of police killing or wounding teenagers who were found with or near nonlethal firearms, including recent cases in Arizona, California and Oklahoma. It also comes as police use of force is again under scrutiny following the shooting deaths in the past month of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago and 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota. Authorities in Maryland got two 911 calls just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday about a "guy acting suspicious" who the callers thought had a gun, said Col. Woodrow Jones, the state police secretary. The first call was disconnected when the dispatcher asked for a location, while the second caller gave an address but not a name, he said.
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