Idaho
Disturbing footage released of officers fatally shooting non-verbal autistic teen
Idaho police have released bodycam footage of officers’ fatal shooting of a non-verbal autistic teenager who was holding a knife.
Victor Perez, 17, died on Apr. 13, eight days after being shot by Pocatello Police Department officers who were called to his family home after receiving reports of a man armed with a knife chasing people.
Bodycam footage of the incident shows an officer running to the scene on Apr. 5, shows Perez laying on his belly in the front yard, holding a knife in his left hand.
“Drop the knife!,” the officer yelled as he pulled out his handgun.
Two family members in the front yard seemed to try and calm officers down, with one man by the fence appearing to hold up his hand as if to call for restraint, according to Idaho News 6.
As the officer continued to yell “drop the knife,” Perez stood up still gripping the weapon.
The 17-year-old appeared to take a half-step toward the cop, which is when the officer opened fire from the other side of the fence, according to the bodycam footage.
Perez, who also had cerebral palsy, entered a coma, underwent several surgeries including a leg amputation, but was taken off life support last week, according to the Associated Press.
Those surgeries removed nine bullets from the teens body.
Officers fired the first shots less than 15 seconds after getting out of their police cruisers and made no apparent effort to deescalate the situation.
The shooting has prompted local outrage, with several Pocatello residents picketing the police department, the AP reported.
“I can’t imagine anyone in the community trusting police after this. They, again, were called to help with a minor having a mental health episode in his front yard and they put him on death’s door,” protestor Dylan Harrison told Idaho News 6.
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s public health division is tracking higher-than-normal flu cases across southern Idaho.
The public health reporting site is showing at least 71 weekly positive laboratory tests for Influenza, with one influenza-related death reported. Tracking data shows that influenza reports started to spike from low to moderate to high starting six weeks ago. The numbers have continued to ramp up steadily since then, now registering as very high across all of southern Idaho.
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Note: As a bonus to our readers who have followed us into Year 2, the East Idaho Sports staff will post a special story on Sundays – Could be a column, opinion, feature, or just something fun and goofy. Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for coming along on this journey.
EASTERN IDAHO — Dec. 31 marked the end of the first full calendar year of East Idaho Sports. It has been a pleasure to bring our readers coverage of local youth, high school, college and semi-pro sports.
Over the last 12 months, we have covered state champions, national champions, junior hockey league champions, record-breaking performances and so much more. Those of you who have followed along since we launched in August 2024 have seen how we have expanded our coverage to include some interactive features like this Sunday Special series, Game Balls and the Photo of the Week voting.
We look forward to the completion of the winter sports seasons — including some Winter Olympics stories — spring sports, the summer sports schedule and returning next fall to start it all over again.
But we also hope to continue adding to our coverage, and shine spotlights on even more of the great athletes and sports programs in eastern Idaho.
In order to do that, we would like some help.
With just two full-time reporters and one freelance photographer we will regrettably miss things. And while we try to fill those gaps ourselves, we are always open to tips.
If there was a sporting event or sports story that deserved coverage it didn’t receive, please email us at sports@eastidahonews.com. If there is an upcoming event that should be spotlighted, please email us.
Also, our Photo of the Week stories will continue to be posted midday every Monday. If you have photos from a local sporting event that you want to enter in the running, email those to us by Sunday morning. For those who follow the voting — on our public Facebook group East Idaho News – Sports — a reader-contributed photo was recently selected our Photo of the YEAR, and we would love to continue adding those on the weekly ballot.
Finally, we recently added a regular feature we are calling the “Whip-around”: A quick rundown of local high school sports action. In order to expand these stories to include more teams, we would love for coaches, players or parents to send us photos of game scorebooks. If you are linked to a local team and would like your team to be added to these stories, please email us, and we can let you know how to do so.
It has been a pleasure to highlight the many local athletes for their successes and hard work, and we look forward to another year of precisely that.
We will see you at a field, court, course, pool, etc., near you in 2026.
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