Cameron Tillman, a high school freshman, was shot dead around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday after police responded to an abandoned house in Houma, in Terrebonne Parish. Three others were arrested and one person escaped. It's unclear if Tillman was armed, but a weapon was found near his body, police said.
BY Sasha Goldstein / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/
Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 8:46 AM
Police swarm the scene after a Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s deputy fatally shot and killed 14-year-old Cameron Tillman in Houma on Tuesday afternoon.fox8live.comPolice swarm the scene after a Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s deputy fatally shot and killed 14-year-old Cameron Tillman in Houma on Tuesday afternoon.
A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy opened fire and killed a 14-year-old boy after responding to a report of armed suspects running into an abandoned home Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Cameron Tillman, a freshman at Ellender Memorial High School, was gunned down by a Terrebonne Parish deputy around 5:40 p.m. in Houma.
A “weapon” was found “in close proximity” to the boy’s body, but few other details were released about what led up to the shooting — or what kind of weapon the teen carried, the Houma Courier reported.
Five total people were reported entering the home on Kirkglen Loop in Terrebonne Parish. Two minors and an 18-year-old were arrested, while a fourth suspect escaped out of a back door of the abandoned home, police said.
Tillman died on the scene.
The boy was remembered as a “tremendous athlete” who lived nearby the abandoned home where he died.
Houma is about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans.
"I look at him as one of my sons," Michael Legarde, a family friend of Tillman and a teacher at Ellender Memorial High School, told the newspaper. "It's a shame. This was a good kid, never caused any trouble."
The Louisiana State Police has taken over the investigation into the shooting.
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