SYRACUSE, N.Y. — They buried them both on Saturday: a pair of identical gray coffins, wheeled out of a hillside church and into the adopted hometown of many of the mourners.
For many, however, that sense of security was shaken early on the morning of Sept. 6, when the two teenagers were shot and killed by a Onondaga County’s sheriff’s deputy responding to a call of suspicious activity at a parking lot in neighboring DeWitt, N.Y.
The authorities had been investigating reports of two stolen cars and a burglary at a local smoke shop in the hours before the shooting.
The Onondaga County sheriff, Tobias Shelley, said in a news conference that the deputy — identified as John Rosello, 34 — had been investigating the burglary and believed the car to be the one involved in that crime.
After receiving the call of suspicious activity, the deputy arrived at the parking lot and shot into the car three times as it sped away, with the teenagers inside, after it drove toward him.
Persons:
Dhal, Lueth Mo, Tobias Shelley, John Rosello, —
Organizations:
South
Locations:
SYRACUSE, N.Y, —, South Sudanese, Syracuse, New York, Onondaga, DeWitt, Onondaga County