‘I think it’s a cap gun,’ the police officer said. He opened fire on an eighth-grader moments later.

Lorenzo Clerkley Jr., an eighth-grader from Oklahoma, did not know he had been shot until he started urinating on himself. Il riait, dit-il, having just come to. But his legs began to shake when he tried to walk. He looked down and saw a bullet hole in his pants.

Another police officer — not the one who shot him — was waiting for him in front of the abandoned house where he had been playing with five other friends, dit-il. The teenagers had been playing with replica guns, ils disent, and someone had called the police to report a break-in with potentially armed suspects. Maintenant, Lorenzo had been shot twice.

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