Nov 22, 2024
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- An Independence mom is upset after she said police mistook her son for a suspect who shot at officers during a chase. The intense moment the teenager was told to come outside his home with his hands up was caught on camera, near 17th and Trail Ridge Drive. An Independence mom said police had ordered her 14-year-old son who had been home that night -- out of their house with guns drawn. “Come out to the backyard with your hands up,” an officer shouted. “Step out, step out!” Kansas City mother speaks on her car being stolen from hotel valet Amber Larcom shared videos from her security cameras on their back porch of what happened on November 6 into the next morning. “Here’s the deal bud,” An officer said, “If you run, I’m gonna send the dog over there, OK?” She's paralyzed and said from her bed it terrified her hearing her son being shouted at, like a suspect, knowing she couldn’t immediately get up to help. “I was terrified, I knew they were talking to my son, I knew he had nothing to do with this, I knew I couldn't get up and save him from whatever was going to happen," Larcom said. Independence police said they were searching for two suspects who took off in a vehicle when officers tried to pull them over, near Truman and Noland Road. Police said on Nov. 6, just before midnight, officers attempted a traffic stop. They said the suspects sped off. Police said officers chased the vehicle and a suspect fired shots at officers hitting a police vehicle’s headlights. Larcom said she heard the gunfire. She told her 14-year-old to lock the doors. Police said the suspect's vehicle hit a tree and two men were taken into custody after a foot pursuit. Police said a K-9 officer located and detained a person in a back yard of a home near the scene. According to the report, that person was identified as a juvenile and released. Larcom said that juvenile was her 14-year-old son. She’s upset with how the situation was handled. “I have never been more petrified, I don't want to cry, of anything in my life,” Larcom said. Overland Park suspect previously convicted in 2006 New York rape incident “Obviously they thought he was one of the people shooting at them. So, I immediately thought, ‘Is he going to get shot as soon as he walks out this door?’” Larcom said police detained her son for about two and a half hours, until they drove him down the street in a van. Fifteen minutes later, she said he came back with a detective and two officers who said the 14-year-old was free to go. “I’m highly upset,” Larcom said. “I feel like he could’ve sat in here with an officer or something."“It was traumatic, it was scary, and I don't think it was handled correctly. I really don't,” I feel like it could’ve been handled way different than it was, especially taking my minor child and disappearing for 15 minutes with him – to me that’s unacceptable.” Download the FOX4 News app on iPhone and Android Larcom wants to file a complaint with the department. she said she's called and left a message with police but has not heard back.
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