Forensics - Tradução em português

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The community of Santa Rosa in California is in shock after a thirteen-year-old boy was shot dead by police, carrying a replica gun. The area where it happened is out of bounds except for forensics to collect evidence, but events have already been pieced together.
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The teenager id-ed by his father to local media had been sent home early from school. He had then decided to take a pellet gun to his friend’s but never turned up.