A rookie cop shot and killed a 14-year-old gunslinger on a Bronx street
early Sunday — just days after Mayor Bloomberg railed against a flood
of firearms falling into the wrong hands.
Shaaliver Douse was shot to death just after 3 a.m. in Melrose when he
kept firing a black Astra 9-mm. pistol after two uniformed police
officers yelled at him to drop the gun, said NYPD Commissioner Raymond
Kelly.
Kelly said the teen — who was due in court on a gun-possession rap and
had been arrested in May on an attempted murder charge — is the youngest
person to die in a police-involved shooting that he can recall.
Douse was chasing an unknown man down E. 151st St. when the officers intervened.
“It is undetermined at this time whether he fired at the officer or the
unknown male,” Kelly said at a Sunday evening press conference.
