Teen said to be endangering children
A Beacon police officer on Sunday (Feb. 2) used a Taser to subdue a 17-year-old whom officers said was throwing rocks at a window of a home with children inside.
In a news release, Chief Tom Figlia said officers responded at 5:30 p.m. to Tompkins Terrace, where a woman said a teenager who also lives in the complex had forced his way into her apartment and attacked her son and his young children.
Police went to the suspect’s apartment to interview him. At one point, he walked out the door and past them, ignoring commands to stop. He walked to the apartment of the woman who had called police, reached into his pocket and threw what appeared to be a rock at her window but missed. As he prepared to throw a second rock, an officer applied a Taser.
The suspect, whom police did not name, was arrested and charged with burglary, criminal mischief, endangering the welfare of a child and attempted assault.
The officers who responded were trained in crisis intervention. “At no time, however, did he respond to the officers or even acknowledge their presence as he approached the female caller,” Figlia said. In that situation, the officers needed to “take prompt action.”
