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Shelbyville KY police shoot-kill teen ... http://privateofficerbreakingnews.bl...kill-teen.html ... the news in ky have been showing this there no way this kid was trying to hit the cops he was locked in his bathroom . theres a video of this , i wish i could find it . you needs to watch the vid ... SHELBYVILLE, KY.Nov 21 2011 — A teenager was fatally wounded in a confrontation with two Shelbyville police officers at his grandmother’s home Saturday afternoon.

The victim, identified by relatives as Trey Williams, 18, died at Jewish Hospital Shelbyville after the incident at 100 Clifton Court, according to Trooper Ronald Turley, public information officer with Kentucky State Police, which is investigating the case.
The officers involved were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and were expected to be released later Saturday night, Shelbyville Chief Robert Schutte said.
The incident began with two calls to police about a man carrying a piece of pipe in the area of Clifton Court. The second caller said the man had broken a window at the house at 100 Clifton Court and gone inside, Turley said. Two officers arrived at 1:47 p.m. and were let into the house and confronted a man inside.
The officers were assaulted with a piece of pipe by Williams, Turley said.
About 20 minutes after the officers entered the house, a police dispatcher received a message that officers were down. That’s when shots were fired, Turley said.
Schutte would not identify the officers, but said both have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the state police investigation. He said both had been with the department for “a considerable amount of time.”
Juan Amador, a neighbor on Clifton Court, said he was outside and heard a window break and saw the police arrive. A maintenance man who works in the subdivision that includes Clifton Court, let officers into the home, he said.
“I didn’t hear any yelling or screaming,” Amador said. “The next thing I know of, we heard the kid was dead.”
Dorothy Farris, Williams’ grandmother, was at a church function in Frankfort when her grandson was shot. When she returned home and was allowed to enter the house to get medication, she said there was a lot of blood and her aluminum crutches were both broken in two.
She disputes the police version of what happened, contending, “They brutally killed my grandson.”
A cousin of Williams, Summer Farris, said he graduated from Shelby County High School last year and worked at Dairy Queen in Shelbyville. He enjoyed playing basketball and video games, she said.
Williams, of Shelbyville, “planned to turn his life over to God” today, Summer Farris said.
After the state police news conference, the Rev. Leslie Harris of Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church led about 100 people, made up of Williams’ relatives and his grandmother’s neighbors, in prayer in front of the Clifton Court house, asking God to grant them patience and understanding.
“We love you, Trey. We always will,” he said.

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EARLIER: Parents of teen killed by police say they want answers

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The family of a Shelbyville teen shot and killed by police spoke publicly about the tragedy for the first time since it happened.
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The family of Trey Williams, (from left) grandmother Dorothy Farris, Stephanie Williams and Gardner Williams, talked about their frustration at not getting any information from police about their son’s death.
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Trey F. Williams, 18, a former Shelby County High School basketball player, was killed Nov. 19 inside his grandmother’s home on Clifton Court in Shelbyville during an altercation with two Shelbyville Police officers.
His parents, Gardner and Stephanie Williams, along with his grandmother, Dorothy Farris, spoke to The Sentinel-Newsfrom the office of their attorney, Frank Mascagni, a Louisville attorney the family has retained to look into the possibility of a wrongful death suit.
Kentucky State Police has been conducting the investigation since officer Suzanna Marcum drew her weapon and shot Williams after she and her partner, Frank Willoughby, had been unable to subdue Williams. Since initial reports in the days immediately following the incident, KSP has released few details.
And the Williamses spoke of how the frustration of not being provided with any answers as to why their son was killed is compounding their grief in an almost unbearable way – a situation that began at the hospital right after the shooting, Gardner Williams said.
“They just came out and said, ‘He’s dead,’” he said. “The state police won’t tell us anything; there’s just no reason for him to be gone.”
Williams tried to hold back tears, but they streamed down his face, unbidden.
“Our hearts have been ripped right out of us,” he said. “We feel like we can’t go on, but we have to; we have other family members who need us.”
“It feels like a nightmare, but then I wake up, and he’s not there.”
He clutched his wife’s hand: “This is so hard for us, we can’t even think about something like Christmas shopping.”
Stephanie Williams managed to keep her voice level, but her eyes were full of pain as she spoke with quiet dignity about the son she would never see again in this life.
“He was so kind-hearted,” she said. “Basketball made him happy. He played everyday. He always kept a smile on his face, and he’d say everything was alright.”
Her mother, Dorothy Farris, drew a deep breath, and then began to talk about her grandson, and the relationship between them when he had come to stay with her recently for a few months.
“I never had any trouble with him,” she said. “You would never even know he was in the house, except when I would hear him sometimes at night, getting up to get something to eat.
“He was a good child; he had good manners, and he sure knew how to treat his grandmother. He loved me and I loved him,” she said, beginning to sob quietly at last. “Such a good child, and I loved him.”
Through her tears, she told of the nightmarish events she would relive over and over again, how she got a phone call from a neighbor telling her there were police and ambulances at her house.
Not knowing what was going on, she went home and, once there, was told only to go to the hospital, where her bad news got as bad as it could get.
“They came out and said, ‘He’s dead,’ And I said, ‘Why, God? Please tell me why.’”
The family’s law team of Mascagni and attorney Sheldon L. Haden of the Oldfather Law Firm in Louisville say they are determined to help the Williams family find the answers they seek.
“They are not in it for the money; they just want to know what happened to their son,” he said. “If I don’t get a coroner’s report and a toxicology report by February, then I will file suit to get some answers.”
KSP spokesperson Ron Turley told The Sentinel-Newsin early December that KSP detectives had finished gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses and were awaiting toxicology results.
He said Thursday that that wait continues.
“We still have no results back,” he said. “There is nothing new at this time.”
Shelbyville Police Chief Robert Schutte issued a statement the day after the shooting that Marcum and Willoughby had been placed on administration leave and said Thursday that he has not heard anything from KSP and cannot discuss any of the details of the case or comment on the officers’ status at the police department until after the investigation is completed.
Turley had stated previously that the two officers had responded to a 911 call of a suspected burglary at the home. The two officers had found a broken window and encountered Williams armed with a pipe and that they shot him several times with a Taser, with very limited results.
He said Marcum shot the teen during a struggle in which the teen had incapacitated Willoughby.
“In order to stop the assault against the incapacitated officer, the second officer [Marcum] utilized deadly force,” he said.
Mascagni said yesterday he had a real problem with that whole scenario.
“I just don’t understand it,” he said. “They had no search warrant, no probable cause to go in, and it’s very frustrating when an eighteen-year-old boy is shot in his grandmother’s home when he has a lawful right to be there.”
Gardner Williams said he just wants people to know that his son was not a bad person.
“I just want the truth to come out, why they had to take him from us,” he said. “And I want people to know how good he was. I think about him every day.
“And I miss him so much.”http://www.sentinelnews.com/content/...y-want-answers

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Expert looks at TASER video http://www.wave3.com/story/16773275/...at-taser-video
SHELBYVILLE, KY (WAVE) - WAVE 3 continues to investigate the death of a Shelbyville teen who was shot and killed by officers back in November. Most of what happened was caught on cameras that were on the officers' TASERS.

A grand jury has cleared Officer Suzanna Marcum, the one who shot Williams of any wrongdoing, but before that shooting happened officers tried to subdue Trey Williams with a TASER.

Attorneys for Williams' family say when officers saw that the TASER was not working they should have stopped and called in backup rather than continuing to Tase.

We showed the video to Stanford Law Professor Dr. Robert Weisberg. His background is in criminal procedure. He says from his view he didn't see anything illegal, but does question the amount of time officers continued to send volts of electricity into Williams.

"The case calls for re-examination of training methods. It may well be that if the reaction phenomenon is at all common police need to be trained in when and how to use the TASER, but in how to tell when the TASER is being counterproductive and when it is safe, and indeed necessary, to stop Tasering and try something else," says Weisberg.

He says what needs to be done is studies by scientist to determine what neurological effect TASERS can have on the brain.

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Shelbyville police say teen was about to interrupt their coffee beak time...

"I knew if we had not forced a closure to this incident immediately we would have missed the fresh donuts being laid out at Mike's Donut, Chinese Food and 1 day Laundry Cops eat free day around the corner. The suspect had retreated inside the private residence so we knew we only had precious minutes to defuse the situation before SWAT was called and the whole mess could have dragged on all night."

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was he burgling his grandmothers house? Caught in his grandmothers house. How would he explain that? A tough one.