California cops shoot dead 13-year-old boy armed with toy gun

Andy Lopez refused to drop his friend’s a plastic AK-47 rifle replica when police in Santa Rosa ordered him to on Tuesday, authorities say.

Californian police officers fatally shot a teen boy Tuesday afternoon because was armed with what looked like an assault rifle — but it was a toy gun.
Andy Lopez, 13, was struck with several rounds from the sheriff's deputies' handguns and fell onto the replica in southwest Santa Rosa, authorities said.
He was declared dead at the scene.

This fake gun was found on the boy after he was killed. The officers who shot him have been placed on administrative leave.

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