ARLINGTON, Texas
(AP) -- The latest on the fatal shooting by police in Texas of
unarmed college football player Christian Taylor (all times CDT):
5:35 p.m.
The
police chief in the Dallas suburb of Arlington says an officer who's
been fired over the fatal shooting of an unarmed Texas college football
player should not have approached the 19-year-old burglary suspect
alone.
Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson on
Tuesday said he had fired officer Brad Miller over the shooting of
Christian Taylor. Johnson says he's troubled by some of the actions
Miller took while responding to a reported burglary at a car dealership
early Friday morning.
Johnson said Miller shot
Taylor when Taylor began to advance toward the officer. But he said
there was no physical contact between the officer and Taylor before
Taylor was shot.
Johnson said it will be up to a grand jury to decide whether Miller should be charged criminally.
Taylor
played football at Angelo State University in San Angelo. Security
footage from the dealership lot shows Taylor breaking the windshield of a
car on the lot before driving his own vehicle into a glass showroom.
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The previous item has been corrected to reflect that Johnson said case will go to grand jury.
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5:30 p.m.
The
police chief in the Dallas suburb of Arlington has fired an officer who
fatally shot an unarmed Texas college football player.
Arlington
Police Chief Will Johnson said Tuesday that he was troubled by some of
the actions taken by police responding to a reported burglary at a car
dealership early Friday morning when 19-year-old Christian Taylor was
fatally shot. Johnson says Taylor ran toward the officer who shot him,
but there was no physical contact before he was shot.
Taylor
played football at Angelo State University in San Angelo. Security
footage from the dealership lot shows Taylor breaking the windshield of a
car on the lot before driving his own vehicle into a glass showroom.
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4:30 p.m.
Police
in the Dallas suburb of Arlington will hold a news conference to
provide additional details about the fatal shooting of an unarmed
college football player by an officer.
Arlington
Police Chief Will Johnson will speak at a 5 p.m. news conference on
Tuesday. Police have not yet described the details of the confrontation
between officers and 19-year-old Christian Taylor early Friday morning.
Taylor
played football at Angelo State University in San Angelo. An officer
shot him after police responded to a reported burglary at a car
dealership. Security footage from the dealership lot shows Taylor
breaking the windshield of a car on the lot before driving his own
vehicle into a glass showroom.
Police have
said that when officers arrived, Taylor was roaming inside the showroom.
Police have said he refused to surrender and tried to run away.
