Trained to shoot to kill

I know there is a so called trained to shoot to kill but lo and behold, to shoot another individual 5 times amidst a scuffle and you are an officer, there must be something that went wrong. Shooting 5 times means the person with a gun does not know how to aim to his target in motion even though he was trained for this. Indeed, the community or the outside world feels sympathy for the dead victim but what if that is your very own child? Will you accept a trained to shoot to kill reasoning? What if the dead victim is your own child (an elementary student) with a knife and you are a parent and an officer, and since you are trained to shoot, you will kill your child? I am just expressing my opinion about the news of a fully functioning teenager with autism who was shot five times by a school resource police officer. I feel bad because a fully functioning teenager with autism means he had gone through a lot to be in his current state and will just be killed in school just like that and by an officer for that matter. There will never be a recovery for the parents of the boy.

On the other hand, am not saying, I detest what the officer did. Based from the news story, he left the hospital on the same day he was admitted, perhaps just couple or less hours. It only means, his wounds are shallow and these could just be knife scratches. And these are not life-threatening to counter his five times shot against his opponent (or there might be more shots released in the air in trying to aim a good shot). The officer must have a taser, why did he not use the taser? As for the knife, who owns the knife? How big is it that his so called stabbed wounds only warrant a couple or less hours of stay in the hospital? Do we believe the officer who claimed the student has a knife? Who inflicted the wounds, the officer or the student with autism? There are many lingering questions here as the outcome was not positive. The officer may not mean to kill the student with autism but he did not use his judgment here. He killed an individual and that is a fact.

I know the police organization in general. I had been there.

Teenager with Autism Killed by a Police

Trevor Varinecz, 16-Year-Old Autistic Student, Killed by Officer After Stabbing Him With a Knife

Written by JJ on Oct-16-09 5:27pm

Trevor Varinecz, 16, was shot and killed Friday after he attacked a high school police officer with a knife at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The 11th-grader had asked to speak with the officer, who he stabbed after the 2 had entered an office, Teal Britton, spokeswoman for Horry County Schools, said.

Despite the tragic events, students were not sent home and were not told what happened. After the confrontation, both Trevor Varinecz and the officer were taken to a hospital. Varinecz was pronounced dead at 9:34 AM and the officer was released in good condition at 12:30 PM.

Trevor Varinecz was an autistic student at the school. According to witness accounts recounted at wafb.com, teachers heard shouting in the office and when they entered, they saw Varinecz stabbing the officer with a large knife. He was shot moments later. Though the officer's identity has not yet been confirmed, the school's only school resource officer is Marcus Rhodes.

This isn't the first time the high school has been the site of a violent attack. In June, 2006, 18-year-old Natalia Holmes was stabbed to death in the school's parking lot. Her ex-boyfriend, Edwin Cornelius Brown, was convicted of the murder and is currently serving life in prison.
(Source: http://www.zimbio.com/Trevor+Varinecz/articles/qYdiLsPGDpo/Trevor+Varinecz+16+Year+Old+Autistic+Student)

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After reading the story about this fully functioning teenager with autism, I doubt it if the police officer's wounds are enough to let him pull the trigger five times. The officer was able to leave the hospital on the same day that he was brought together with the teenager with autism who later died. The police officer's wounds are too shallow to warrant him to shoot the teenager five times. It is very suspicious. The boy may have brought the knife to school, which is bad/violation but to be shot five times vs the shallow wounds inflicted on the officer brings the case to a homicide. You can shoot the boy's legs and/or arms but not in areas where the victim eventually succumbed to death. There should be more facts or even videos to see that the police officer's actions are not self-defense.