Mother: Son Didn't Have Gun When Shot By Phili Police
Monday, November 1, 2004 at 02:43PM
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Police Say Suspect Had BB Gun
The mother of a 22-year-old man shot by police
told NBC 10 News Thursday that police claims that he had a gun are just
not true. "I'm very angry. Very upset. I want some justice done about
it," said Ruth Miller, the suspect's mother. Police
are identifying the man who was shot as 19-year-old Rodney Brown. But
the man's mother identified him as Feldon Bush, 22. The shooting
happened Wednesday night near the intersection of Unity and Leiper
streets in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia. "He said they
tried to kill him. They shot him right here, almost in the head. Then,
they put him on the ground and threw him in the wagon without putting
him on a stretcher," Miller said. Police sources told NBC 10 News that
officers were answering a call about a man with a gun who may have been
threatening a woman. When police tried to stop Bush and his friend in
the Frankford neighborhood, they fled, police said. Miller is outraged
that Philadelphia police shot her son just blocks from his home. "He
said when the police pulled up on them, the police already had their
guns out, like they was going to shoot them, regardless. And, as they
was running, a shot went off and it was from the police. My son said to
his friend, 'They are shooting." Then his friend said that next thing
he knows he seen my son hit the ground," Miller said. [more ]
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