Police officers fatally shoot 17-year-old on New York bridge after lengthy negotiation

The New York State Attorney General’s Office released body-camera footage of a police response to a reported suicide threat on an overpass in Wappingers Falls. Seventeen-year-old Oscar Granados Colindres was standing on the bridge holding a knife and engaged in a 50-minute conversation with an officer who spoke to him in Spanish, asking about his family and urging him to lower the weapon. When the teen descended from the bridge and approached the officer, several officers opened fire, discharging at least ten rounds that struck him.

The video shows multiple officers positioned across the road and further down the street. Attorneys Vince Sykes, Randolph McLaughlin and Debra S. Cohen, representing the family, criticized the decision to use police rather than trained crisis-intervention staff. A GoFundMe page has been created to collect memorial donations for the boy, who attended Roy C. Ketcham High School and was involved in soccer and automotive hobbies.