Officer Barden Castro is back to full duty after a police department shooting review board determined he did nothing wrong when he fired his service weapon at a pellet gun-toting juvenile.
Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Gauvin said the review board found that Castro “operated within the confines of the Fall River Police Department’s rules, regulations, policies and procedures.”
Gauvin said the board’s decision was unanimous, and Castro has returned to full duty.
Castro fired a single shot at a 16-year-old juvenile on April 7, after the youth allegedly pointed at the officer with a pellet gun modeled to look like a semiautomatic handgun. According to Gauvin, a Fulton Street resident observed the youth drop what appeared to be a handgun, then pick it up and stick it in the right side of his waistband. Upon responding to the area,
Castro chased the suspect from Lindsey Street to Ballard Street, where the youth was [...]

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