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FD-350 (Rev. 5.8.81 (Indicale page. name o: Page C-3 newspaper. city and stale.] The Atlanta Constitution (Mount Ch:pping in: Space Below) Atlanta, Georgia Date:April 4, 1990 Edition: WEDNESDAY MORNING Lowery wants investigation Title UNSUB (2) , OFFICERS, DEKALB COUNTY, G. of police shooting of teen POLICE DEPARTMENT; ABDUL b6 b7C VICTIM. OF By Sandra Mclntosh they should have to talk to some- Classiticahion. 44A-AT-64592 Staff writer one," he said. "Someone besides Suomitting Office Atlanta them needs to look into this The Rev. Joseph Lowery, head shooting." .Indexing ofthe Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference, has asked Gov Abdul was shot in his bed- Joe Frank Harris and U.S. Attor- room March 23 after his mother,. ney General Richard Thornburgh Bessie McKinney, called the po- to investigate the recent shooting lice to her home. Abdul and Mrs. of a 16-year-old by DeKalb County MeKinney argued and the teen. police. ager took a knife and locked him. self in his room, his mother said. The Rev. Lowery said his of. When she heard him throwing fice sent the requests Tuesday things in his room, she became asking that the concerned and called police. shooting of Ab- dul McKinney Two officers and a supervisor be investigated responded. After speaking with as an "obvious them about 15 minutes, the police case of exces- said, Abdul threw a stick at one sive force." Ab- officer and lunged at a second. dul was shot with the knife. Officer S.C. Nelsen three times and fired three shots, hitting Abdul in the lower part both legs and the abdomen. Abdu! of his right leg admits to throwing the stick, but had to be am- Abdul McKinney told his mother he had put the. putated. knife down before he was shot. "Three trained police officers should have been able to deal The county's Advance Situa- with one teenager without shoot- tion Team, which is trained to ing him even if he did have a such situations, was not called to knife," the Rev. Lowery said. the scene. Capt. A.R. King, head of the police internal affairs unit The DeKalb County police de- said last week that the shooting partment refused to discuss the appeared justified. He said the shooting with anyone from the officers tried their best to talk Ab- SCLc, the Rev. Lowery said. dul out and were surprised when "They don't want to talk to us, but he lunged at them with the knife.