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A state trooper shot and killed a 16-year-old armed with a knife and airsoft gun, Maryland authorities say A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said. The shooting is the latest incident of police killing or wounding teenagers who were found with or near nonlethal firearms, including recent cases in Arizona, California and Oklahoma. It also comes as police use of force is again under scrutiny following the shooting deaths in the past month of 13-year-old Adam Toledo...

A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said.

“The trooper ordered him to drop the knife before he fired again,” Jones told reporters. The airsoft gun that the teenager wielded is commonly used to shoot BBs and is “a close representation of an actual handgun,” Jones said. Boyle said her family would release a statement about the shooting through an attorney “because we definitely would like our side of the story [told[ and for everyone to know what an awesome young man my son is.” In that statement, released later Wednesday, the family said Ham was an eighth grader at Leonardtown High School and loved history, conservative po...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. LEONARDTOWN, Md. — A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday. The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting suspicious, Superintendent Woodrow Jones II told a news conference. The first caller said he thought the person had a gun, left a telephone number but didn’t give an address before hanging up, Jones said. A second ca...

Who Is Peyton Ham? 16-Year-Old Shot, Killed by Maryland State Trooper On 4/14/21 at 12:31 PM EDT Peyton Ham was identified as the 16-year-old who was fatally shot by a Maryland state trooper on Tuesday afternoon. Ham was a resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, and lived near the 23000 block of Hollywood Road, according to a statement by the state police. At a Tuesday press conference, Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Woodrow Jones III said that Ham did not live in the home where the shooting occurred. He noted that there are two active crime scenes where investigations are ongoing: t...