“I find this very, very disturbing, and very difficult to watch.” At the time he was shot, he was on the ground, not trying to get away,” Krasner said. “You have an unarmed 12-year-old who drops a gun 40 feet from where he was shot to death. Krasner said evidence showed that Mendoza knew that TJ - 5 feet tall and 111 pounds - was unarmed when he shot the boy, and that his conduct before and after the shooting made that clear. But he said that TJ had tossed his gun while running away, and that the weapon was found about 40 feet from where Mendoza shot him. The shooting came moments after TJ fired a shot at an unmarked car carrying Mendoza and three other plainclothes officers, Krasner said.
