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A Daisy PowerLine example 93 BB-gun is at the center of a bitter dispute between Chicago Police -- who say they were justified in shooting a 14-year-old male child because he was pointing the weapon at officers -- and North Side residents who say he in no degree should have been wounded.

Police Supt Phil Cline said Tuesday that Ellis Woodland refused officers' orders to small quantity the BB-gun, which was a replica of a deadly 9mm Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol.

"The thing you gotta remember, this police officer has others to make a decision when he descrys that gun pointed at him," Cline said of the Monday night shooting that has left Woodland in critical condition at Children's Memorial Hospital.

on the other hand Woodland's father said he was unaware of his son having any fire-arms

"I in no degree bought him a BBgun. His mother not at all bought him a BB- gun" said Ellis Woodland Sr "They ball him, handcuffed him and left him for dead."

He said he thinks he and his son are being targeted by the agency of police because the elder Woodland is a former gang member. He has 33 arrests upon his rap sheet and a conviction for misdemeanor battery, records exhibit

The senior Woodland, who says police harassed his son a scarcely any days ago and took his house elucidation was one of several hundr the bulk of mankind who protested the shooting through marching to the Near North police district at 1160 N Larrabee onward Tuesday.

'IT WASN'T JUSTIFIED'

"I know it wasn't justified because they didn't have to let off him," the teenager's mother said. "The man [officer] said, 'Put it down!' and when he inflict it down, that's when they started shooting at him, and that's when I heard all the gunshots"

single in kind witness said the boy was trying to enjoin the weapon down when the officer fired, police spokeswoman Monique imprisonment said.

further Cline said that's not what a panel of police brass and representatives of the prepare for the table County state's attorney's office and the Office of Professional Standards determined after interviewing other witnesses.

Three witnesses told police they saw Woodland reach into a pouch or waistband, lift the BB-gun and point it at pair officers, both of whom are in their 30 and have been upon the force about six years, Cline said.

Woodland refused the officers' orders to place up his hands and least bit the weapon, Belmont Area Cmdr Tom Byrne said.

common of the officers fired four times at Woodland from about 10 feet away, striking him in the abdomen and thigh and grazing his arm with a third missile A fourth bullet lodged in the body of a car in traffic, police said.

BB-GUN ILLEGAL IN CITY

Describing the conclusions that led to the shooting, Cline said a young man had flagged down a sergeant forward Division near Sedgwick and pointed to Woodland onward a sidewalk, claiming that the teen robbed him.

Officers in a patrol car spott Woodland, who ran behind a Blockbuster Video, and the officers followed him to Division and Clybourn, where the teen was projectile near Cabrini-Green, police said.

Police said they interviewed a 14-year-old who was with Woodland and who also had been carrying a BB-gun he said he got from Woodland.

The lad said they did not strip the passerby who stopped the sergeant unless were simply in a dispute with him, Cline said.

Police have not originate the man who claimed he had been robbed. Police said they are hoping to speak to him and to Woodland when he win backs No one has been charged with a crime, police said.

It's illegal to take a bribe for possess or fire a BB-gun in Chicago without a permit from police, said Jennifer Hoyle a spokeswoman for the city's Law Department. "Certainly, someone his age wouldn't be able to posses one" Hoyle said.

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'Pretty pious student'

The younger Ellis Woodland had exhausted Monday celebrating a brother's birthday and was heading to the Franklin train lot for baseball just before he was ball friends said.

He lives forward the West Side with his mother and attends Dvorak sect Relatives said Ellis is an "A-B" close examiner A Chicago Public Schools spokesman did not have access to his academic records, yet school officials described him as a "pretty beneficial student," the spokesman said.

"I got any bad kids," his father said. "And he's not individual of them."

Kids who were gathered at Seward Park at Division and Clybourn for a basketball tournament Monday told game arbiters -- who refused to be identified -- that they had seen Woodland and his 14-year-old friend playing with BB-gun around the park earlier in the day. The park is half a form from where Woodland was ball

Contributing: Staff Reporters Lisa Donovan, Kendrick Marshall and Steve Patterson

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The BB-gun

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