Witnesses Tell of Day Police Shot Young Man

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Earlier, he had been awakened by his girlfriend's teenage son involved in a shouting match with a man outside the window. [Ken Warren] woke up and found that the man outside was looking for a woman but had the wrong address. He told the man to go away. After his girlfriend's teenage kids returned to school for the afternoon, a little boy knocked on the door asking for someone who didn't live there. "You've got the wrong house," Warren told him. "He was peering over his shoulder," said Warren when the man who was shouting at the house earlier appeared on the steps and tried to push past him into the house. "He snatches the silver chain off my neck," and told an older teen who showed up with him to "shoot him," said Warren. He saw the teen reaching into his sleeve and retrieve "something black and barrel-like with two points on it... It might well have been a Taser," Warren told the inquest.

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Witnesses Tell of Day Police Shot Young Man

By Carol Sanders

Instead of celebrating her son's 22nd birthday Monday, Matthew Dumas's mom Carol wept at the opening of the inquest into his shooting death at the hands of police.

Dumas was 18 at the time ...

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