Teen Shot and Killed By Police In Far Rockaway Queens New York
According to the NY Post, Three officers fired 14 shots at Dashawn Vasconcellos Saturday night after he ignored orders to drop his weapon, the NYPD said.
Vasconcellos, 18, and two friends were leaving Bayswater State Park in Far Rockaway, Queens NY at about 11:30 p.m. when four cops from the gang unit spotted them, police said.
The officers, who were in an unmarked car at Beach 32nd Street and Beach Channel Drive, jumped out to question them about why they were in the park after it closed for the night
The youths all tried to flee, but one of the cops was able to grab two of them, police said. Vasconcellos managed to run away.
The other three officers chased the teen, who suddenly spun around and aimed the 9mm weapon at them, according to police.
When Vasconcellos ignored repeated orders to drop his gun, the cops opened fire, police said.
A spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner's Office said he was hit 11 times.
Three bullets struck him in the back, one in the chest, one in the right arm and the rest in the legs.
Vasconcellos was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital about 45 minutes later.
Police said he had an arrest record for robbery and trespassing and that his gun was recovered at the scene.
His two friends, Derbie Michel, 18, and a minor whose name was withheld, were charged with trespassing and resisting arrest.
Vasconcellos' mother was too distraught to talk to reporters yesterday at a vigil near the entrance to the Beach 41st Street Houses, where he lived.
Family friend Arleaner Cannon said, "He was a good kid. He would not pull a gun at cops. If he had a gun, it was for protection. He's not crazy."
Vasconcellos' next-door neighbor, Axel Figueroa, 31, said the teen, "didn't seem troubled at all."
"He's not the kind of person who would point a gun at anyone," the neighbor said. "Why would you do something crazy, almost suicidal?"
Another resident, who asked not to be identtified, said, "Eleven shots was excessive, it doesn't take that many bullets to take someone down."
R.I.P DASHAWN
BY @JYNXMILLIONAIRE
Tags: cops, down, far, gun, new, queens, rockaway, vasconcellos, york
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Comment by aim on November 24, 2009 at 5:01am - u can get shot anywhere as long as u still moving or even tryna run after being shot...now it made no sense to pull a gun on 3 or 4 cops get ya ass on da ground and do ya tyme...11 shots excessive??? no bcuz all he has to do is shoot 1 bullet dat could kill a cop tryna do his job...sorry for da yung man but cmon now if u put urself in positions lyke dat wit a gun gotta really think how u living
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Comment by MISS APPLEBTMZ on November 24, 2009 at 4:45am - R.I.P TO ANOTHER YOUNG BLACK MAN GONE!!!
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Comment by MISS APPLEBTMZ on November 24, 2009 at 4:43am
- FIRST OF ALL..ANYONE WHO SAYS HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVES SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!!!!NO 1 DESERVES TO BE GUNNED DOWN LIKE A FUCKIN ANIMAL!!! AND JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE FACTS...HOW CAN HE HAVE POINTED THE GUN AT POLICE IF HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK???COME ON PEOPLE..OPEN UP UR EYES!!!THEY SHOT THIS YOUNG BLACK KID LIKE HE WAS AN ANIMAL!! I LIVE IN THE HOOD AND I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO SURVIVE...PEOPLE WILL PLOT ON U FOR ANYTHING....HOW CAN WE AS A PEOPLE FEEL PROTECTED BY THE POLICE????WHEN U CALL THE POLICE IN THE HOOD IT TAKES ABOUT 30 MINS OR MORE FOR THEM TO EVEN SHOW UP!!!! WE HAVE TO PROTECT OURSELVES!!! WHATS REALLY GOIN ON WITH US AS A WHOLE??? WE NEED TO TAKE OUR COMMUNITIES BACK!!! Y R THE YOUTH SO ANGREY WITH THEMSELVES???PUT BACK THE PROGRAMS IN SCHOOL..GET INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY....BRING BACK AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS SO THEY WONT HAVE SO MUCH FREE TIME.. STOP HAVING ALL THESE KIDS THAT U CANT TAKE CARE OF!!!! MEN BE FATHERS TO UR KIDS INSTEAD OF THEM HAVING TO LOOK FOR THE (O.G'S, DRUG DEALERS, OR WHORES) IN THE HOOD TO LOOK UP TOO!!! WOMEN STOP LOOKIN FOR A COME UP AND GET UR SHIT RITE!!! AND MOST OF ALL R.E.S.P.E.C.T EACH OTHER!!!
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Comment by Wesley Harris on November 24, 2009 at 4:42am - @Dash. If you have to be in @23H00 thats sad. He deserves to be alive nobody should die so young in that manner. no way.
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Comment by b4world on November 24, 2009 at 4:26am - DAMN SHAME,THE STREETS B REAL WILD
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Comment by sodon22 on November 24, 2009 at 3:49am -
Man this is Bullshit 4 UC ran at me and i ran to, it could be anyone, never know wat someone is capabale of.
I fuking hate undercovers, thought the were other gang
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Comment by J.B-well aka Young Hawk on November 24, 2009 at 3:18am - Damn man. What up with the kids 2day? And why the cops shoot him so many times??
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Comment by MacMilly "The Don" on November 24, 2009 at 3:10am - ALL YALL STUPID MUTHAFUCKAS CAN SAY HE WAS DUM FOR THAT BUT YALL WASNT THERE PEOPLE ARE SO DUMB THAT BELIEVE EVERYTHING THE MEDIA TELLS THEM. NYPD AND LAPD ARE THE MOST CROOKED COPS IN THE NATION COPS HELP COPS SAVE THEY ASS SO FUCK WHAT THEY SAYIN AND FUCK WHO EVERYBODY ON HERE THATS SIDIN WITH DEM PIGS JUST SAY R.I.P AND SHUT DA FUCK UP!!!!!!
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Comment by MacMilly "The Don" on November 24, 2009 at 3:02am
- IM MAD THAT THE LIL NIGGA PULLED OUT DA PISTOL, I WISH HE WOULD HAVE JUST HIT DA CORNER AN TOSSED DAT THANG I MEAN I KNOW HE DIDNT WANT TO GO UPSTATE BUT HE WAS JUST 18 HE COULDA FOUGHT DAT CASE...(AND NYPD SAID HE AIMED IT AT THEM BUT I THINK ITS TO SAVE THEY OWN ASS CUZ THEY TO AFRAID TO ADMIT DAT THE REAL REASON THEY SHOT HIM WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE MAD THAT HE HAD A GUN ON HIM AND HE WAS GETTIN AWAY...HMMMMM I SMELL PUSSY)
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Comment by Dash on November 24, 2009 at 2:00am - now..... first thing ..if thats aint no ones fault but tha kid.. he set himself up.. he he was at home in a book or watching Tv he would be alive....and what i hate about this shit it when people start saying " he or she wouldnt do this"... fuck yall know.. well apparently he would have..it would have been totally different if he had shoot someone now.. everyone would be sayin wat an idiot he is..but running from the cops and pulling out a gun is just as stupid...11 shots ..thats really over doing it..when will these niggas learn NYC cops live to drop yall.. i understand him running cause ive been there when them lights come on... fuck it ..especially if u know u got something on u. ur first instinct is to run..i got away..idk maybe he tried to toss it..
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