Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement.

The surveillance footage shows Myers approach the teens with a gun in his hand, point it directly at them and then move quickly toward them, police said. One of the boys pulls a BB gun out of his pocket, lays it on the ground and extends his arms out as if to show he has nothing in his hands, police said in the document.

“Immediately after … it is clear that he has been shot because he abruptly jerks his body away from Myers and falls to the ground,” the document says.

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    5 months ago

    It’s not the BB gun that got the kid killed. He literally put the gun on the ground and had his hands up.

    It’s because the “security guard” is a stupid, trigger-happy moron.

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      5 months ago

      I agree, but for clarification it was a different teen whom he shot, who still had his BB gun.

      There were 3 teens, two with BB guns. The first dropped his and was on the ground, straddled by Shooter McFuckhead when the second, still standing, was shot.

      Thank god there was a “good guy with a gun” there. Otherwise nobody would have died!

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      5 months ago

      To make things clear (and worse), this man wasn’t even on the job! Nobody asked him to do this! He just dropped his kid off for a class nearby and decided it was his duty to shoot anyone he deemed suspicious.