A verbal slip-up by his aunt seems to sum up how friends and relatives viewed Darrien Hunt before he was shot dead by police in Utah last week. “He was just like a normal teenager,” Cindy Moss said of her nephew, who was 22. As they try to understand how Hunt came to be killed after walking around a strip mall in Saratoga Springs with a decorative samurai-style sword, people who knew him are seeking explanations in a youthfulness that they say belied even his relatively tender age. To his mother, Susan, he was “a boy in a man’s body”. Cristina Caffiero Kurzmann, a family friend, agreed. “He was a child at heart,” she said. “He may have been 22, but at heart he was 15. He was the nicest kid, and would never have hurt anyone.” Police and prosecutors allege, however, that on Wednesday, Hunt “brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers” responding to a 911 call from a nearby gas station that reported he was acting suspiciously. One or both of the officers shot at him, and he fled up to 100 yards north. He then died outside a restaurant, having been shot repeatedly.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 05:15:29 +0000
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