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Maine AG: Use of deadly force against teenager was justified


Maine’s Attorney General says the fatal shooting of a teenager by a deputy at a dollar store in 2019 was justified.

16-year-old Christopher Camacho was seen on surveillance video walking into the Dollar General in Limerick in December 2019 holding a machete and pointing a gun at the cashier, which later turned out to be a revolver-style pellet gun.

York County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Carr entered the store and fired at Camacho, killing him.

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said this week that Deputy Carr’s use of force was justified because he reasonably believed Camacho planned to seriously harm or kill him or the store clerk.

Police said the incident was an attempted robbery, while Camacho’s mother, Susan Bolduc, says she believes her son committed suicide by cop and was pointing a BB gun.

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