East Pittsburgh police shoot unarmed fleeing teen in the back killing him

East Pittsburgh Police officer shoots a fleeing 17-year-old boy three times in the back killing him.  The officer had been sworn into the police department just hours earlier, reported the Huffington Post.

Antwon Rose was killed Tuesday night while fleeing from a car that had been pulled over in connection with an earlier shooting in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, according to WTAE TV.

A post on the Allegheny County Police Department’s Facebook page described what happened:

An East Pittsburgh police officer saw a vehicle matching the description on Grandview Avenue which also had ballistics damage to the rear window. The officer stopped the vehicle near Grandview and Howard Street in East Pittsburgh.

The officer took the driver into custody. While he was putting the driver into handcuffs, two other occupants ran from the car.

One individual ― a 17-year-old male ― was shot by police. He was transported to McKeesport Hospital where he was declared deceased.

Rose was not armed, Allegheny County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Thirty-three yeas ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee v. Garner, the Fourth Amendment prohibits the use of deadly force unless it is necessary to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of violence to the officer or the community. The Tennessee statute at the time was unconstitutional as far as it allowed deadly force to prevent the escape of an unarmed fleeing felon.

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