Identity of stripling shot to loss of life by deputy in Victorville is introduced

The 17-year-old mentally ailing boy shot to loss of life by a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy throughout a battle on Tuesday was recognized Friday, April 5, as Aaron James.

Also Friday, authorities shed little new mild on how Aaron escaped the switch from Desert Valley Hospital, the place he had been handled three days earlier than his loss of life after he reduce himself, to a psychological well being facility.

Aaron was being transported “by EMS,” stated hospital spokeswoman Andrea Bell, referring to emergency medical providers.

“Beyond this, we can’t share extra data as a result of affected person privateness legal guidelines. Our ideas and deepest condolences are with the household and all concerned on this tragic occasion,” Bell wrote in an electronic mail.

Bell didn’t reply to extra written and telephone messages searching for a extra particular description of what EMS she was referencing — for example a non-public ambulance firm — in addition to when, the place and the way the escape occurred.

The Sheriff’s Department didn’t present such data both on Friday. Sheriff Shannon Dicus stated Wednesday that the hospital instantly notified the division when Aaron vanished.

At round 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, the teenager, a foster youth who lives in Hesperia, confirmed up on the house on Forest Hills Drive in Victorville the place his sisters dwell in foster care, Dicus stated. An individual on the house known as deputies to come back detain Aaron, Dicus stated, as a result of he had triggered bother there earlier than.

Aaron, who had a knife, locked himself within the lavatory, and deputies tried for about half-hour to get him to come back out.

But when Aaron threatened to hurt himself, deputies kicked down the door and tried to apprehend him, Dicus stated. A video and nonetheless photos of the encounter confirmed him holding a knife. Deputies pepper-sprayed him, and one deputy’s hand was sliced by the knife.

Aaron was pushed or fell into a tub, the place he was shot. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Dicus known as on the county to supply extra psychological well being providers for fogeys in order that they don’t need to depend on regulation enforcement when their youngsters act out.