'No good deed goes unpunished': Trooper recalls decision to shoot, kill 15 year-old boy

FHP officer talks about fatal use of force

15 year-old Zayn Terryn was shot to death by Lt. Channing Taylor in 2015 after he fired at Taylor, hitting him in the shoulder.

By Daralene Jones

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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">'I hear a bang, hear the firearm go off and it feels like somebody hit me with a baseball bat in my shoulder.'</span></span></span></span></span></span>

WFTV reviewed Florida law enforcement officer involved shootings between the years 2007 - 2017 and found more than 56% involved an offender with a handgun.

<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">'She's living with this and what she saw and the pain she saw in me.'</span></span></span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">'I couldn't imagine if I was the parent of the gentlemen that I shot...'</span></span></span></span></span></span>

WFTV conducted an analysis of law enforcement officer shootings between 2007 - 2017 and found less than 1% involved teenagers.

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