By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter Prosecutors said Monday they will not file criminal charges against a Northern California sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun he mistook for an assault rifle. The parents of Andy Lopez decried the decision, saying 'it is impossible' to accept and they felt as though their son 'had been killed again.' The teen's death last year heightened racial tensions in a mostly Latino neighborhood of Santa Rosa, a city of about 170,000 residents around 50 miles north of San Francisco. The shooting parked protests and criticism that the officer acted too quickly.
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Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Erick Gelhaus shot dead 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, 2013
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On Monday, District Attorney Jill Ravitch released a 52-page report explaining her office's decision not to press charges against the deputy
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The 23-year police veteran was patrolling Lopez's neighborhood when he came across the eighth-grader with what looked like an AK-47
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Deputy Gelhaus ordered Lopez to drop the weapon, but Lopez instead turned towards the squad car with the toy gun in his hand
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He then fired eight rounds at the boy, and Lopez was pronounced dead at the scene
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