Cops Shoots Kid Playing With Toy Gun

<p><span id='mn_Global'><span id='mn_Article'>A 15-year-old boy playing 'cops and robbers' with a toy gun was shot and wounded by a sheriff's deputy who mistook it for the real thing, authorities said Monday. <p>The boy, whose identity was not immediately released, was hospitalized in stable condition, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Jeff Gordon said.</p> <p>'He's expected to fully recover,' Gordon said.</p> <p>Deputies answering reports of someone riding a bicycle and brandishing a handgun went to 20th Street shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday and spotted the rider, Gordon said.</p> <p>They ordered him to drop the weapon but instead he pointed it at deputies, Gordon said.</p> <p>One deputy fired a shot and hit the boy in the upper body, he said.</p> <p>Gordon said the teen apparently had been playing 'cops and robbers' using a replica gun that resembled a black semiautomatic pistol with brown grips.</p> <p>Gordon said the gun lacked the orange tip that most toys carry to distinguish them from real weapons.<br style='clear: both;' /></p> <div class='articleEmbeddedAdBox' style='width: 336px;'> <hr class='articleAdRule' /> <div id='adPosBox' class='adElement'><noscript></noscript><img style='display: none;' src='http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=29aa381e-3e53-11de-bfc3-2fcc39216a24&amp;T=19d59nl9e%2fX%3d1242063777%2fE%3d2022775850%2fR%3dncnws%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d8.1%2fW%3d0%2fY%3dPARTNER_US%2fF%3d1317449910%2fH%3dYWx0c3BpZD0iOTY3MjgzMTUxIiBzZXJ2ZUlkPSIyOWFhMzgxZS0zZTUzLTExZGUtYmZjMy0yZmNjMzkyMTZhMjQiIHNpdGVJZD0iMjExMDUxIiB0U3RtcD0iMTI0MjA2Mzc3Njk5MTU4OCIgdGFyZ2V0PSJfYmxhbmsiIA--%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d918D0D4C&amp;U=13uvvofc2%2fN%3dWyC7AEwNj2Q-%2fC%3d600126119.600129890.402128478.402128478%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d1727128662200367108%2fV%3d2' alt='' width='0' height='0' /><!--flv has invalid value--><!--rTg has invalid value--><!--rTg has invalid value--><!--MME--></div> <hr class='articleAdRule' /> </div> </span></span></p>