悲剧!智障男子持玩具枪上街与警方冲突被打死(图)

　　核心提示：美国北迈阿密海滩市当局透露，9月31日下午一名持枪男子被警方击毙。后经证实，该男子所持为玩具枪支。据悉，没有其他人在事件中受伤。

　　中新网9月1日电 据外电1日报道，美国北迈阿密海滩市当局透露，一名持枪男子被警方击毙。后经证实，该男子所持为玩具枪支。

　　事件发生在当地时间31日下午，警方在接到报告称有一男子持枪在街上走动后出动。当地警方发言人表示，当时警方与这名男子发生了冲突，并开枪射击。这名男子随后被立刻送往医院，但依然不治身亡。警方目前还没有透露这名男子的姓名。

　　据悉，没有其他人在事件中受伤。

　　North Miami Beach police kill mentally disabled man carrying toy gun

　　MIAMI - North Miami Beach Police are piecing together an officer-involved shooting and killing of mentally disabled man. He man was originally thought to be carrying a gun but it was later determined to be a toy rifle.

　　Officials told CBS station WFOR that the incident began Wednesday afternoon when officers responded to several calls about a man seen walking around with a rifle. Witnesses told the station that at one point the man aimed the rifle at a neighborhood dog.

　　According to police reports, when officers arrived there was some sort of confrontation which caused one officer to open fire on the man. However, a subsequent investigation revealed that the "rifle" was a toy. The injured man was then taken to a local hospital where he later died. Family members say the man police killed was 56-year-old Ernest Vassell.

　　"They murdered him in cold blood for a toy gun!" cried Vassell's older sister Claire Harding. "That's no reason for you to kill somebody!"

　　Vassell's sisters say they have never seen him with a toy gun and believe he must have found it somewhere. They say he was mentally disabled after a brain injury as a child and that he has never been violent.

　　"They could tell him to drop the gun. They say they told him to drop it and he raised his hand," Harding told WFOR. "He probably raised his hand to hand them the gun because he is afraid of police."

　　The family is now demanding answers and changes to the North Miami Beach Police Department.

　　"They should train these police officers better," said Harding. "This is ridiculous, they just go around killing people for nothing."

　　Police maintain the toy gun appeared to be a real rifle. One officer is on administrative leave while police and the state attorney's office investigate this incident.