College player shot by police

The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued.

An unarmed college football player who was fatally shot by an officer in Texas did not comply with initial calls to surrender, authorities said.

Police had gone to the Classic Buick GMC in Arlington, about 10 miles west of Dallas, after being contacted by a company that manages security cameras at for the auto dealership.

The officer involved will be placed on administrative leave, which is mandated during deadly force incidents.

Police are seen arriving and entering the showroom.

The training officer fired no shots. “Prior to APD, Officer Miller had no previous police experience”, the department reports.

Miller wasn’t wearing a body camera because the department doesn’t yet use them, police said. “All signs were pointed to go, for him to go get things done”.

Miller has no disciplinary record and had not fired his gun in the line of duty before Friday, Rodriguez said.

“If this was not justified or authorized under the law there will be consequences”, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson stated on Saturday.

Police responding to a burglary call found Taylor inside the building and say he refused orders to lie down.

Where the gunshots came in the sequence of events is unclear, Johnson said, and Miller has yet to be interviewed by investigators.

Adrian Taylor, Christian’s older brother, told the local NBC news affiliate KXAS-TV that the teen did not deserve to die.

Taylor graduated final yr from Mansfield Summit Excessive Faculty in Arlington and was listed on Angelo State’s roster as a 5-foot-9, 180-pound defensive again. They added that “It’s possible that someone obtained portions of the audio from a police scanner website”.

He included “an acknowledgment that this instance has not occurred in isolation but rather has occurred as our nation is grappling with the problems of social injustice, inequities, racism and police misconduct”.

Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said during a news conference Saturday night that he spoke with the FBI’s Dallas field office following the shooting of Christian Taylor, an Angelo State University football player. Police said they were notified of an alleged burglary attempt and that a jeep had driven onto the showroom floor.

The medical examiner and the auto dealership’s management did not return a phone message Saturday.

He said he could not expand on what took place during the confrontation until they’ve had time to complete their investigation.

He was killed by a rookie cop in his late 40s who joined the Arlington police force approximately one month after Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson.

At a news conference, Arlington police chief Will Johnson confirmed that a special Federal Bureau of Investigation agent would be helping in the probe – however, he remains confident that the department will investigate the teenager’s death fairly.