Published 2 years ago

Texas school massacre, pellet guns that look real. How both played a part in Toronto police shooting

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Michael Kempa is an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa. Kempa says pellet guns can be dangerous, adding they "shoot a bullet that looks quite a lot like a regular firearm bullet" Toronto police shot and killed a man Thursday after receiving reports of a person with a rifle in an area where several schools are located.

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Police encounter people with pellet guns 'with regularity across Canada,' criminologist says | CBC News

Investigators probing the fatal police shooting of a man in Toronto Thursday will have to factor in the recent mass murder at a school in Texas, and also encounters police have with people carrying pellet guns that look like the real thing, a criminologist says.

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