RELATED: Long-time Centerville officers involved in shooting of teen
Officer Scott Thomas responded to the juvenile's home in October after a report the juvenile had kicked his mother and bit her head during arguments about school attendance and food. Thomas and another officer arrested the juvenile on a domestic violence charge and drove him to the Montgomery County Juvenile Detention Center.
The October incident was the second-recorded interaction between the juvenile and Thomas, who in June 2014 disciplined the juvenile and his friend for breaking bottles on a local park's basketball court.
The incidents and one prior in April 2014 bookend more than a dozen interactions the juvenile had with police before he showed up unannounced at the Centerville police department and later brandished the air pistol.
Centerville police maintain Thomas and Sgt. James Shanesy acted appropriately in shooting the subject wielding an air pistol police said was indistinguishable from an actual gun.
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