Myrtle Beach officer shot 17-year-old fleeing deadly Ocean Boulevard melee, teen’s attorney claims

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — An unarmed 17-year-old was shot in the back by a Myrtle Beach police officer in the midst of April’s chaotic North Ocean Boulevard melee that left a Bennettsville man dead.

That’s the claim made Monday by national civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers, who said in a news release that he was representing the victim identified only as “John Doe.”

“They almost killed my son that night,” the victim’s mother Kristy Flow said in a statement. “They shot him in the back while he was unarmed and running away. He was just a teenager at the beach like any other, and now he has to carry that bullet inside him for the rest of his life.”…

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