No charges against officers who fatally shot suicidal teen

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors will not file charges against Grandview police officers who shot and killed an apparently suicidal teenager who pointed a BB gun at them. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a letter earlier this month that officers who shot 17-year-old Lantz Stephenson Jr. on May 16 at a Grandview park acted within their legal authority as law enforcement officers. Investigators say Stephenson pointed a BB gun that looked like a handgun at officers and ignored officers’ demands to drop the weapon before he was shot. Peters Baker’s letter said Stephenson told paramedics before he died that he was attempting suicide.