State investigators have confirmed that the teenager fatally shot outside Mount Horeb’s middle school was in possession of a pellet gun.
The Department of Justice verified this detail over the weekend, indicating that Mount Horeb Police instructed the 14-year-old to drop his weapon, which he failed to do.
Subsequently, officers fatally shot the teenager when they perceived him to be aiming the rifle at them.
The weapon was identified as a Ruger .177 pellet rifle.
The Department of Justice has ongoing investigations into the incident.