Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide
Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide By Kimberly Kindy , and reported by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich , Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery May 30 at 9:00 PM A rosary is draped over a portrait of 17-year-old Jessie Hernandez. The teen, who was killed by Denver police officers in January as she and friends allegedly tried to run them down in a stolen car, is among eight people younger than 18 who have been fatally shot by police this year. (David Zalubowski/Associated Press) In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And in a high-rise apartment in Birmingham, Ala., police shot an elderly man after his son asked them to make sure he was okay. Douglas Harris, 77, answered the door with a gun. The three are among at least 385 people shot and killed by police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than...