Texas college football player shot by police was unarmed

Authorities say Miller joined the department in September of 2014 and graduated from the academy in March.

A security company had called 911 after observing the suspect on camera outside the business.

The officer involved will be placed on administrative leave, which is mandated during deadly force incidents. Officers arrived at the building and said, “they found the man in the dealership’s showroom and approached him”. “An officer discharged his weapon and struck the suspect”, Rodriguez said.

As the details surrounding the police shooting death of 19-year-old Angelo State University football player Christian Taylor, questions have been continuously mounting on what actually happened. “The Arlington Police Department is saddened by this loss of life and will provide the community a clear and transparent investigation”, an Arlington Police Department press release stated.

“He [Taylor] was a good kid”.

The suspect, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was not armed with a weapon, Rodriguez said.

A little less than a year ago, only days after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, which quickly became a national story and began changing the media’s perspective towards police abuse and killings, Taylor tweeted that he did not feel protected by police.

There, Officer Brad Miller, 49, confronted a suspect who was accused of driving a vehicle through the front of a auto dealership, police said in a statement. “Nuh-uh. Something doesn’t sound right”.

Rodriguez added, according to the Star-Telegram, that the Arlington department is starting a pilot program to get the use of body cameras in place, however, the officers were not wearing them yet. “…They say he’s burglarizing the place by running up in there?”

It was unclear whether there was any video of the shooting.

“We are looking at all available video from outside and inside the location to obtain as much information as possible”, Arlington Police Sgt.

According to court records from Tarrant County, cited by the Star-Telegram, Taylor was sentenced to six months deferred-adjudication probation last December for possession of 11 hydrocodone tablets that were not prescribed to him.

In a Twitter post, the university’s football coach, Will Wagner, said, “Heart is hurting.” The case was dismissed July 14 after Taylor satisfied the requirement of his probation.