University Circle Police chief wants to start tracking fake guns

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CLEVELAND — There is enough of a concern about fake or replica guns that one police chief in Northeast Ohio wants to start tracking them.

He says the replica wasn't used in the attempted car theft, but it would have been very concerning if it had been. Body camera footage released by the City of Akron shows Officer Ryan Westlake officer shoot 15-year-old Tavion Koonce-Williams in the hand immediately after he drove up to the scene and saw the teen had what was later determined to be a fake gun.

 

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