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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD says one of its officers shot and killed a teen inside a Bronx home on Thursday.

Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect.  He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.

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The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom of the apartment house where Graham lived with his mother and grandmother.

Graham was rushed to Montefiore Hospital and pronounced dead.  The suspect’s mother, Constance Malcolm, claims police chased her son because he had marijuana on him and that he was unarmed.

“Everybody’s kids get into trouble.  He smoked a little weed, but you know, like all the little, young kids does.  And that’s what he had on him when they were chasing him,” Malcolm told 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria.

Police said they did not recover a weapon from the scene.  They also said Graham had prior arrests.

The suspect’s mother also said that the teen’s grandmother and 6-year-old brother were inside the house at the time of the shooting.

“In the bathroom they shot him.  My 6-year-old son was there and saw everything,” Malcolm said. “I’m going to get justice.”

The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Unit is investigating the details.

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  • jb

    Everybody just needs to watch this and take some notes:

    • Gang Bangers are fruits

      Too late. They’re in jail. Cavity search already done…and they love it!!!

  • Rudy America’s Mayot

    So it waz alrite doin a liddle pot at age 18 a good boy runin awaye
    from the kops..a reel winnur he waz, this saved NYC money jailing hem
    time footure

  • MIKE

    RISE BLACKMAN YOU’RE THE KING!!! THEY KNOW IT THIS IS WHY WE ARE KILLED! RISE BLACK THEY ADMIRE US SO MUCH THEY CANNOT FACE THE TRUTH THAT WE ARE THE HUMAN RACE. RISE BLACK TAKE BACK WHAT IS YOURS…HUMANITY. RISE BLACK, STAND UP BLACK MAN YOU ARE BEAYTIFUL AND WE NEED YOU TO BE THE KING TYOU ONCE WERE.

    REMEMBER, THINGS ARE JUST FOR A WHILE.

    RISE BLACK MAN.

    • Rich

      Go “smoke a lttle weed…like all the little young kids does”…weed leads to more drugs, violence, crime, etc. Is that the rising you speak of? God help you, and all of us, if it is!!!

      • Bernard Shaw

        You are as bright as a 2 watt bulb.

        • midi-man

          smoke a little weed…like all the little young kids does. I do not know but is does correct grammar?
          I guess that is what smoking a little weed will get you.

          • JV

            Have you ever heard of dialect? You know, the way Southerner’s use the word “y’all.” Variations such as the one you pointed out are normal and “correct” within the spoken English language. EAE (Edited American English) only applies to the written language. Your comment reeks of subtextual racism. Anyway, let me correct your sentence for you. It seems you meant to write: “I do not know, but is ‘does’ correct grammar?” Maybe you should spend more time on your punctuation and less time making insensitive, moronic remarks.

      • m.r.Eddi

        So then the cops were doing drugs right? since they did all the violence in this case. the guys didnt even have a gun. should read what you are going to post before you do

    • MAN UP

      Wow. Civilized people admire drug addict crackheads that mug old people for the Social security checks. I admire all the weed you smoke. Graffiti that makes the hood look pretty. Men making babies but aren’t man enough to take care of your family. Thinking of excuses not to man up. Yeah Real men admire that. How about raising a book to your faces and getting an education instead of killing each other and only complaining when cops do it. YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THE CRIME THAT AFFECTS YOUR CHILDREN? NO!!!

  • Ted

    Behave, you won’t have these problems!
    And if the purp shot the cop?

    But he was a “good boy”. He only been arrested numerous times!

    • Me Tarzan U Ghetto Monkey

      Behave is not understood by animals

  • JB

    so he deserves to be shot and killed , DID THEY ONCE THOUGHT HE WAS POSSIBLE ARMED?????I DOUBT IT……LOOK AT THE OFFENSES IN THEIR LIST OF CHARGES DO U SEE ARMED AND DANGEROUS

    • GF

      The prior charges have nothing to do with the situation. If the cops are chasing you and you are in plain sight at all times then its likely the cop wont pull his weapon. But once they lose sight of you especially if you run into an apartment they are pulling weapons because they are walking into a unknown and potentially dangerous situation. Did the kid deserve to die? No. Was the officer wrong for his actions? We don’t know.

    • No real working men in the hood

      His offense was stupidity.

  • bob

    Because shooting to harm is something that is done in movies not in real life. When engaging a target you want to eradicate the treat. An injured person is just as dangerous as when not injured because adrenaline can keep an individual fighting(and trying to take the gun away from the officer as he probably was) even with a couple of gun shot wounds in the body.

    • CSI

      What????? What does anything you are saying has to do with shooting an unarmed person. So next time I see you running and think you have weed on you I am just going to shoot you because I think you are going to take my gun. Thats why I didn’t take the position because all of my cop friends are a bunch of bone heads. Only reason they are cops now because they got bullied in high school. Just another way to feel powerful.

  • John

    According to the WSJ:

    “A law-enforcement official said Mr. Graham had eight prior arrests, including burglary, robbery, dealing marijuana and other offenses. The disposition of those cases wasn’t known.”

    But of course he was still a “good boy”

    • Rich

      Who liked to smoke a little weed, you know, like all the little kids does…LOL!!! Does anyone else see anything wrong with this?

  • Liberals are Great…..

    Liberals are Great…..at helping cause the crime rate to go up. Just look at New York.

    • Basil

      I’m a Liberal, and I think marijuana should be decriminalized. We don’t need to put people in jail for consuming drugs. However, this teenager may have been a dealer of marijuana. He’s had 8 priors. I think people need to decriminalize drugs because putting tons of people in prison for it makes the price too high for the drugs and socially it doesn’t work. We’ve tried the very conservative way. The problem with it is America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The crime rate has gone down all over America whether in Liberal or non-Liberal areas. The mother makes it seem in this case as if her boy was just your random kid who smokes marijuana. He probably sold it. I wish he was taken in and not killed, but he chose to run from the authorities and resist. I think another cop with more experience wouldn’t have killed him.

      • Usaidit

        I think you know nothing of policing but liberals never seem to.

        • Basil

          I disagree. The Netherlands doesn’t fill its jails full of people who smoke pot.
          Marijuana is illegal, but it doesn’t need to be. A cop can take down a teenager without shooting him in the chest. If I know nothing about policing, then why is there an investigation. Some ideas that are Liberal are good, some that are Conservative are good. You always need a balance. The Conservative approach is what the US uses and that’s why we have the most people in jail in the whole world, man!

          • Drug addicts are weak

            When you have experience in law enforcement instead of smoking weed and trying to lower the price of drugs let us know.

    • Hairpin lupinski

      Why don’t you come to New York and see how people really are instead of echoing brainless drivel with your head stuck in the Fox New toilet? Spitting out stupidity is easy. Any two year old can do it. Be a grownup and think before you post. Take responsibility for what you say and back it up with experience,

      • Liberals are Great…..

        I am in New York Jacka@@. I have experience with brainless idiots like you. It’s people like you that tore down America. Now go finish you bong dummy.

  • MicNic

    Nothing like a cop shooting to bring out the good old fashion American racism and moral condemnation in a lot of people. *Arranges pedestals so that some self-righteous and down right nasty commentators below can have a seat*

    • http://handofananke.wordpress.com Christine Noble

      Amen! Eight prior arrests, huh? How many convictions? It’s not that unusual in “stop and frisk” New York (or any other city) for a black man to have arrests. Even if he was convicted, this isn’t about how innocent he was or was not (and what parent, especially a grieving one, isn’t going to defend her child’s honor) but about gunning down an unarmed man, in front of his 6 year old little brother.

      • Basil

        The part you’re missing is that prior to shooting the boy, the boy was struggling or fighting with the cop. He ran into the house and then into the bathroom and was fighting with the cop, apparently. He didn’t want to be taken in. The cop was on the force for three years and somehow after getting in a struggle with the suspect, shot him. He didn’t do his job well, but the teenager put himself in that situation by running into his house after trying to get rid of the evidence in the toilet, obviously. Why do you think he went to the bathroom? He had to flush away his stash. I feel bad for his six year old brother. The fact that black men get arrested more, which is horrible, doesn’t change the fact that that young man chose to resist arrest and deal with an illegal substance and struggle with a policeman. I am not in agreement with shooting him, but we don’t all the facts behind the struggle between the two. Why was he struggling with a cop instead of going peacefully to jail?

        • D

          No I think you WHITE PEOPLE DONT GET IT, if he was a WHITE 18 year old boy who ran into his mom’s home with his grand mother there, would the cop have shot him? PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU RESPOND. PS.. all those who claim he had prior arrest, am assuming some how the cop knew this thats why he was chased into an apartment? If he was dangerous how and why would a police officer be struggling with a dangerous armed criminal? Again THINK WHITE PEOPLE THINK….

          • Rich

            You sir, are an idiot. Why would the cop be struggling with a dangerous armed criminal…because that’s what these brave men and women get paid to do. They don’t hang out on street corners smoking a little weed, you know, like all the little kids does…I can’t get enough of that…LOL!!! Let me ask you, would you put yourself and the welfare of your family (and I don’t mean public assistance when I say welfare) on the line while getting grossly underpaid to protect anyone else? P.S. Where in ther article does it say the cop was white?

          • the thinker

            It is not about a skin color, but about the behavior of particular groups that others have learned to distrust. Perhaps the officer was thinking of NYPD Officer Kevin Brennan, shot in the head In Bushwick just 3 days before or Dead Officer Peter Figoski shot on December 12, and the Officer did not want to end up dead or wounded as his colleagues. The over played victim issue, based on skin color, is in reality not the true concern. Bad behavior is the problem that too many of you are too self-righteous to recognize, and therefore never address. It is everyone’s fault but your own, bad schools, unemployment, segregation, etc. I wonder WHY????? Unpredictable behavior! You have, unfortunately, earned your stripes and the majority suffers the consequences.

  • Harriet

    I don’t think it’s really so much a debate over the kids morals. I mean, the death penalty for murderers is highly debated in many areas. Killing someone, anyone, for something like marijuana is completely out of hand. I mean, think about it. It’s a plant, for god sakes. We are killing each other over a plant. I don’t have any stance on this particular instance, or whether the cop was in fact acting in self defense (there really isn’t enough information here), but taking a human life, regardless of whether or not you consider he or she to be a good person, is unreasonable and fairly disgusting.

  • Jason Slupski

    Well heeelllllo BIGOT PIG! Your white hooded robes and burning cross are waiting for you. Burn in HELL.

    • Jason needs his daddy

      Go back to smoking your weed Loser and waiting for your welfare checks. Sorry if you don’t know your daddy but blame it on your mother. By the way dummy the truth does make one a bigot pig.

      • Basil

        Smoking marijuana doesn’t make a person a loser anymore than drinking whiskey. A large percentage of people in Canada have smoked it once, including many professionals who make much more money than you and me. I don’t smoke it, and I hardly drink. I think there’s a problem if a teenager is smoking it in this case even if it were legal because he’s underage. His mother is irresponsible since he has had priors. Part of this is her fault, and her son resisted arrest and was fighting with a police officer instead of going downtown. I have a problem with what the cop did in response, but he could possibly claim it was in self-defense. Don’t gloat over someone’s death. What’s the point?

        • Have a drink

          Doing any drug is a sign of weakness. PERIOD!

          • MicNic

            Meaning that you must be au natural in everything, right? No over the counter meds or prescriptions for you. Drugs are for chumps. Have a seat sir and take your government approved meds.

            • Have a drink

              No I don’t take anything. I take the pain like a man which you wouldn’t understand. Now go give Pfizer more of your money.

              • B. Have

                Methinks he doth protest too much. Not even coffee? Cigarettes? Black tea? Sugar? All of these are mood altering substances, i.e “drugs”. How about Novocaine at the dentist? If you truly don’t take any analgesics I admire your purity of vision but suspect you’ve never had major surgery or broken a limb.

          • Basil

            Does that apply to people also drinking beer and whiskey or having their cup of coffee or cigarettes? I don’t think people should be busted for smoking joints, but if he was selling it, it’s another story. I don’t see why a cop needs to kill some teen in a struggle if the teen wasn’t grabbing for his gun and wasn’t armed.

  • alkh3myst

    Good Lord, what vile things run through your mind. I’m glad I don’t know you.

    • Natural selection killing

      I’am glad I don’t know you either. I don’t make friends with criminals or pot smokers. How many excuses do you make for criminals by the way? When you have experience living in those types of neighborhoods then say something smart.

      • MicNic

        Everyone loves to point the finger and cry “witch”….that is until their own dirty laundry is aired out and its them. Sympathy and empathy are human qualities, yet it never fails to amaze me how few people actually possess them. You are beyond sad and I am sorry for whatever it is that made you that way.

        • Natural selection killing

          I’ll have sympathy for a good honest person not someone who fights the police. Defending criminals like you do is really sad. Sorry if you have dirty laundry but that’s your fault. Why don’t you move to that neighborhood if you think that’s such a great place. All talk with no experience. Just like a liberal.

          • Lisa

            So, because he smokes marijuana he isn’t a good, honest person? I’m tired of people think this way. Not everything is so black and white like it is on TV. You don’t know that kid’s life, so don’t assume that he wasn’t a good person over records. MLK had a record, too, and I’d hope that you’d consider him a “good, honest person”.

            • rashie

              thank u

            • GF

              A Good kid with prior arrest that include Burglary and robbery. And he also ran when he was approached and was in possession of drugs plus there was a struggle before he was shot. I’m tired of everyone who gets killed by a cop being referred to as “a good _______”. While the NYPD does occasionally make poor judgement call at certain times 9/10 the victim isn’t all that innocent or completely without blame.

            • MLK was a real man

              Smoking weed doesn’t make you evil just stupid and weak. Just like white people want. Selling drugs to your own kind or anyone else doesn’t make you great either.

    • Neighborhood watch

      What vile thing goes through your mind to defend criminals?

  • Josie

    Someone’s son is dead over some damn marijuana, this has got to stop!!
    This is absolutely ridiculous! Killing a human being over a harmless drug, this makes me sick!!!

    • Basil

      Incorrect, he was killed for fighting with a police officer in a bathroom after he ran from the police. I am against arresting people for marijuana, but the headline and reading the words of the mother early on doesn’t have you see that there was a fight with the boy. I think the cop was wrong to shoot him even though he was fighting him.

  • cubanflowers

    “Everybody’s kids get into trouble. He smoked a little weed, but you know, like all the little, young kids does”

    she sounds like a real fool. i don’t know what my kids do when they are not in my eyesight but none of my children have rap sheets or smoke weed (as far as i know) and i pray to God it stays that way..

    be blessed.

    • MicNic

      Wow oh wow. Talk about heartless. No matter what your stance is on the case, that was not called for. I feel sorry for you.

      • Puerto Rican American Marine

        Don’t feel sorry that I’am not a crinimal with excuses to man up. If you go through life with excuses I feel sorry for you too.

    • CJ

      Your a distgusting human being!!!!!!

      • Puerto Rican American Marine

        Your a hood rat. When did not being a criminal become disgusting? Wow you are a honest moral person. NOT.

      • CJ stay off the drugs please

        Graham must of been your supplier.

  • Carl Lundgren

    The confluence of an inadequately trained police force, harsh and impractical laws, institutional racism, an education sytem left to deteriorate and under attack by those tasked with protecting and improving it, and increasingly shrinking opportunities for employment and training for our youth are proving to be a lethal combination. This serves the interests of no one, and, with each new and almost daily incident, is more than likely going to result in a backlash and upheaval that will once and for all lay bare the conceit that we live in a just society.

    • Basil

      I don’t have enough information to go on exactly if the cop fired on the suspect as part of the struggle. Perhaps, the cop was fighting fiercely and felt that, in self-defense, he had the right to fire. I don’t have enough information about that.
      One, why does the mother have a son with so many priors? Two, why was he resisting arrest and apparently fighting with the cop. That is dangerous. I can’t take sides on this one. I’m sorry he’s dead. I need more info. from the investigation before completely blaming the police officer. The boy wasn’t shot simply because he had marijuana. He was struggling i.e. fighting with a cop.

  • dan

    I don’t understand what they mean by he had prior arrests. So what? What are they trying to say that because he had prior arrests that gives them the right to shoot him?

    • Basil

      It’s relevant to show that he was not simply some kid who smokes marijuana, and that he has had previous run-ins with the law. He clearly didn’t want to get arrested again and was running from the cops. Not only that, he started struggling with a cop. That was a mistake. Whatever wrong the cop did, the boy put himself in jeopardy. I am not defending anything wrong the cop did, but he could argue he shot the guy in self-defense and potentially get away with it. I feel bad that he was killed in front of his baby brother. I don’t think people should be arrested for pot or drugs, even. It unfairly hurts people.

      • MicNic

        I’m sorry, so because he had past struggles that made it okay for them to shoot him
        ? At no point did they said that he possessed a weapon to even warrant this abuse of power. A struggle does not justify murder and until they prove to me that he’s a murderer, rapist, or gang banger there is nothing the NYPD can say to justify this.

        • Anthony Gayle

          He never was a gangbanger or rapist. He was my cousin and my family. If if he did have pot that still does not justify the fact that they shot him in his house.Now a family is torn apart. I have lost all conern for humans because now all i see is loved one dying left and right and people are priasing this…….
          DEATH TO HUMANITY ILL FEEL NO SHAME IF GOD ENDS THE WORLD

  • Anthony Gayle

    so your answer justice is murder that person was my cousin and now he is gone. hop i see you in person when you die so cant laugh at your corpes and your family weeeping ther eyes out.

    • Graham is dead. Hooray!!!

      Please learn to write english instead of smoking weed loser.

      • Anthony Gayle

        I pray that your eaten by canibals. And am there to see it.

        • Natural selection killing

          Spoken like a true African cannibal. Your mom will eat me first..

  • bigbxhec

    I guess if you have prior arrest, your basicly game for the NYPD. Might as well have a bullseye on your back. Im tired of hearing the same ole song and dance. The NYPD does no wrong. I hope to see them all in hell one day.

  • Good Kid, not!

    If the cops don’t get him, the streets will. This kid would die at a young age either way. I’m sure he just enrolled gor his GED and was turning his life around.

  • Tracey

    You are an idiot! Why must people like you post your ignorance comments on public forums. Let me guess, you’ll say you have a freedom of speech? I wonder do you go outside spewing the same nonsense out of your mouth publicly? My guess is you do not because you would catch all kind of hell.

  • Natalie

    Not saying the teen was innocent. He was probably running to toss the pot down the toilet since he has prior drug arrests. In everything I’ve read, cops seemed to know the teen was unarmed. Why must they always shoot to kill? Why not shoot to harm? If the teen wanted to have hurt the cops, he wouldn’t have run he would have taken aim. Sometimes I think the police shoot to kill & always use the same defense of “thought the person was armed.” Just saying…

    • Sgeo

      There’s no such thing as shoot to wound. If you’re pointing a gun at something or someone, it’s with intent to destroy that thing or kill that person. There are, however, less lethal options. Shooting isn’t one of them, but, for example, tazering might be.

      • Timothy Scuderi

        So they couldn’t shoot the guy in the shoulders, arms, or legs despite it being close quarters with probably not much room for him to move around in?

  • EB

    The police probably didn’t want to pay the going price, so they did what they call the legal solution and killed him because they do no wrong!

  • JQ

    why does he have to be black and unemployed Victor?

  • led

    So he should not been smokeing weed and her point is? ibet that kid had a big rap sheet

    • It starts at the home

      Mommy smoked the weed with dear old son I bet.

  • Meme Meyagi

    Thanks Obama…….

    • cubanflowers

      please stop mas turbating to President Obama.

      be blessed.

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