Teenager called 911 before police shot him

San Diego police trying to determine why call was placed.

The call came into the San Diego’s 911 system around 3:30 a.m. Saturday: Could officers check on the safety of a teenage boy standing outside Torrey Pines High School in the affluent Carmel Valley neighborhood?

Minutes later, a 15-yearold teenager lay dying in a parking lot in front of the school. Police shot him, they said later, after he ignored multiple requests to drop a weapon — later determined to be a BB gun — that he was pointing at responding officers.

On Sunday, police were trying to determine why the 15-year-old placed the call that sent officers to the school in the first place.

The officers, one a 28-year veteran and the other a fouryear veteran, were wearing body cameras, according to Mike Holden, an acting captain with the San Diego Police Department.

Holden said Sunday that portions of the footage would probably be released after the department ends its investigation and its conclusions are reviewed by the San Diego County district attorney.

The teenager, who was a student at Torrey Pines and was white, identified himself by name in his initial call to the dispatcher, Holden said. He said it was still too early to speculate as to why the student might have called police himself.

The student ignored multiple warnings from the officers to drop the handgun, police said, and was shot “numerous times” after approaching one of the officers while pointing the gun at him.

After the officers attempted first aid, the teenager was taken by paramedics to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he was pronounced dead.

Asked about the weapon, Holden called it a “close replica,” and said police had to examine it carefully to determine that it was, in fact, a BB gun.