{"id":31492,"date":"2019-05-07T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=31492"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:16:56","slug":"14-year-old-shot-by-oklahoma-city-police-while-playing-with-b-b-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2019\/05\/07\/14-year-old-shot-by-oklahoma-city-police-while-playing-with-b-b-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old shot by Oklahoma City Police while playing with B.B. gun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brianna Bailey \/ The Frontier<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Clerkley was shot in his hip and his thigh.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Oklahoma City Police could face legal action in retaliation for the March shooting of a 14-year-old black boy.<\/p>

Police claim Lorenzo Clerkley did not follow an officer\u2019s command to drop a B.B. gun in March. Clerkley\u2019s attorney says the officer didn\u2019t properly identify himself and used excessive deadly force.<\/p>

Brianna Bailey a staff writer for The Frontier reports<\/a> the boy and his friends were playing with B.B. guns in an abandoned house when Sgt. Kyle Holcomb shot him in his right hip and left thigh.<\/p>\n

Holcomb, seen on body camera footage, was holding a handgun in one hand and his radio in the other. \u201cHey,\u201d The police officer yelled as he approached an old wooden fence. \u201cPolice department, come on out.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cI think it\u2019s a cap gun, they are shooting something,\u201d Holcomb said into his radio as he approached the fence. \u201cShow me your hands, drop it,\u201d Holcomb yelled at Clerkley. Two seconds later, Holcomb fired four shots at the teenager. Holcomb then yells \u201cDrop the gun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>