Police Shoot Up Car Full Of Teenagers, Kill Girl

by Austin Petersen

By Casey Harper Published: January 28, 2015

Police shot up a car full of teenagers Monday, killing one.

Two Denver police officers fired several shots at a vehicle when the 16-year-old girl driving it allegedly tried to run them over.

The girl, identified by friends as Jessica Hernandez, died at the hospital, New York Daily News reports. One officer was hit by the car, but was released from the hospital with a leg injury, the Denver Post reports.

The officers are on leave and the incident is under investigation.

“We’re angry about it,” Cynthia Valdez, friend of the killed girl, told NBC News. ”It’s another life taken by another cop.”

Police said they checked on a suspicious vehicle and then learned that it was stolen. When they approached the car, they say the driver tried to hit them with the car. That’s when they opened fire.

This is the third time in seven months that cops have shot people they claimed were using cars as weapons, the Denver Post reports.

Police have not said if anyone in the car was armed. A parent of one of the teens in the car said her child did not know the car was stolen.

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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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