Linden Cameron, 04.09.2020. Shot multiple times – Salt Lake City (UT)

Linden Cameron is a 13-year-old boy from Glendale, Utah who has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. Her mother Golda Barton told KUTV she called 911 to request a crisis intervention team because her son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was having an episode caused by “bad separation anxiety” as his mother went to work for the first time in more than a year.

“I said, ‘He’s unarmed, he doesn’t have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming. He’s a kid, he’s trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.”

Two officers went through the front door of the home and in less than five minutes were yelling “Get down on the ground!” before firing several shots.

According to an early report of the incident, KUTV reported that police were responding to a call about a teenager with a “violent psych issue”  who was “having a mental episode and making threats to some folks with a weapon.”

After officers from the Salt Lake City Police Department arrived, police say Linden ran and was then shot. “During a short foot pursuit, an officer discharged his firearm and hit the subject,” Sergeant Keith Horrocks said during a news conference. According to CNN, police also said that they were told that Linden “had made threats to some folks with the weapon.” Barton claimed that she told police that her son was unarmed.

Linden is currently hospitalized in serious condition after sustaining severe gunshot wounds to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and bladder, according to his mom.

The police have not released the name of the officer involved in the shooting, or made public the police report, or explained generally why the officer shot the child, or said if he or she would be charged or face any disciplinary action. The department said it would release additional details within 10 business days, which is when local ordinances require bodycam footage be released.