MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – The long gun carried by a 14-year-old boy who was shot by police and killed outside the Mount Horeb middle school Wednesday was an air gun, state investigators said. It was a Ruger 177-caliber pellet rifle designed to resemble serious weaponry. Police had been called about a youth with a gun near the school. This was roughly 11:15 a.m. Police swarmed the scene. They ordered the youth to drop the weapon. Reportedly he aimed back at officers. They fired. He fell dead. The boy’s name has not been released, but it was released that he was not a middle-school student. Four days later, it remained conjecture what the boy had in mind carrying a gun outside the school. There were early reports that the boy fired the weapon, although those have been disputed. Investigators collected police bodycams to help with an accurate reconstruction
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