A teenager lost his life in Atlanta last weekend, after a police officer confused the Wii controller in his hand with a firearm.
The lawyer of 17-year-old Christopher Roupe's family told the media that the young man was only holding the Nintendo Wii controller and was about to watch a movie when a female officer from Euharlee, Georgia, shot him in the chest after opening the door to his mobile home, according to the ABC.
The same source noted that the 17-year-old had been accidentally shot on Feb. 14, when two police offers from Euharlee, among them the officer that killed him, showed up at the door of the mobile home in which he lived with his family to enforce a probation sentence against his father.
In the first statement made by the agent that killed Roupe to the George Office of Investigation, she claimed that the young man took aim at her with a firearm after opening the door to his house; however, witnesses told the police that the teenager was clearly holding a controller for his Wii video game console.
"It just doesn't make sense. Someone knocked the door, he asked who it was, there was no answer so he opened the door and when he opened the door they immediately shot him in the chest," said Cole Law, representative of the family of the killed teenager, to WSBTV.
Police authorities did not reveal the name of the female officer involved in the incident; however, Roupe's neighbors told WSBTV that the officer was visibly affected after realizing that the teenager did not have a gun in his hands.
Christopher Roupe's friends said that the deceased teenager was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and planned to join the Marines.
The police officer involved was suspended from her job while an investigation develops.
Video via WSBTV
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