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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) I(indicate page, name of Page E-1 newspaper, city and state.) THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ATLANTA, GEORGIA Date: March 30, 1990 Mom calls police Edition: FRIDAY MORNING shooting an injustice OFFICERS, DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT ib6 FVICTIm. b7C By Sandra McIntosh Publlc Safety Deparlment or Staff writer spokesman Chuck Johnson said Classification 44A-AT-64592 the county has an Advance Stitua Submitting Office:ATLANTA The mother of a 16-year-old Hon Team that Is trained to han- .boy shot three times by DeKalb dle situatlons llke the McKinney police Iast week said he pan- Incident, but ihe team was not Indexing: icked and threw a stick al them. called to assist that night. Mr. but she claimed he didn't lunge Johnson said It is up to the re. at them with a knife,as police spondingofficers to calthe team alleged. Capt. AR. King, head of the I know this looks like some DeKalb Police Department's in- wild, erazy kld who just went ternai affatrs unit, said his detee- off"Bessie McKinney said."But tives are nearly through with the this is a good kid who made a investigation and that the shoot- bad mistake and is paying dearly Ing appears justified. The offi- for i1." cers,he safd,tried their hest to Surgeons at Grady Memoria! telk the boy into putting his weap- Hospital, where Abdul McKin- on dowm .and.were surprlsed ney'remains in the intensive when he.lunged at them after 15 care ward,told the MeKinneys minutes. Wednesday that Abdui's right The manager of the Eckerd They asked me to leave.the leg will have to be amputated be- Drugs'store where Abdul worked room, they said I wasn't helping, low the knee because the bullet heard three or four shots," Mrs. Ieg has no cireulation. The sur. had an angry siue. lle was always MeKinney said. gery is scheduled for today. happy and cheerfu!," said the "In five generations of my He also was shot in the let manager, who because of compa. family we've never had anything leg and the abdomen,where the ny policy could not give her name. like this happen" she said. "We bullet lodged next to his spine. Police have charged Abdul didn't seem like he'd hurt a fly" shot by the police. We're a good with two counts of aggravated Mrs. McKinney said when she .family." assault against a police officer. asked Abdul, her only child, why Staff writer Katie Long con- tributed to this article. lice to her Kelly Lake Road home threw the stick at the police, he about 11:30 p.m.Mareh 23 after told her, "I don't know. I pan- her son,Abdul, locked himself in icked,Mommy. his bedroom with a knife. Police "He'd come in late and we'd tried to talk to Abdui, who was argued and he took the knife into crouched on the floor of his bed- his room and locked the door,' room cioset, but a report on the Mrs.MeKinney said."I was afraid utes Abdal threw thestiek at offi- never done anything like that cers, then lunged with the knife before." and was shot. Mrs. McKinney said her son. " think the incident was han an eighth-grader at McNair Jun- dled wrong," said the Rev. John ior High School. has never been Talford. pastor of the Trinity in trouble with the law. Presbyterian Church,which Ab- "The frst thing they nsked dul atiends with his mother. The ! when they got here was, 'Is ite on: : officer should have put down his! drugs?' but the tests they did in gun and called a counselor.' 1 the hospital all cnme back The Rev. Talford said Abdulis. squeaky clean," Mrs. MeKinney A-/- /C "a very smart young man who, sald."He doesn't even smoke.". didn't create trouble. "I iooked at ! When police came to her SARD him as being a real plus for the home,Mrs.MeKinney snid,the of.. : church and his community," he Acers tried to talk Aidul out, but said.. when he wotldn't respond.they became antagonistic,asking him If he was tough and teling him they were tougher. F8I/DOJ