You are a new police officer who has just completed all of your training, On your first night out alone and without the supervision of an FTO, you receive a call for service relating to a possible break in at a grocery store at 1:42 am. You arrive to find a 17-year-old, black male (David) near the building. When you confront him, he runs. You chase him and in the heat of the moment, you draw your gun and shoot. David falls to the ground, and you realize you have shot him in the back and the wound has exited his chest. Before you can react, he takes his last breath...

What action(s) would you immediately take at the scene.?

What led you to shooting this young man? Specifically address how discretion and training affect this decision?

What laws support or oppose your decision?

Were there more appropriate non-lethal options you could have utilized instead?

What are the likely outcomes (e.g. individual, legal, community-level) in this situation based on your actions?

If David had been armed, would this have affected the outcomes in this situation? Why?

Later we find that David was not involved in the burglary...What theory would explain why David ran regardless of his innocence? What individual and community factors would David cause David to run? How does the perception of police legitimacy play into his desire to run?