Records detail timeline on shooting of 13-year-old who authorities say carried replica rifle
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Records show it took just 10 seconds for a 24-year veteran of a California's sheriff department to decide to open fire and kill an 8th grade boy carrying a harmless but spot-on replica of an AK-47 assault rifle.
The timeline of the incident was released by authorities on Thursday as outrage mounted in the blue-collar, Santa Rosa neighborhood where the boy was shot.
Bisected by Highway 101, the once-sleepy hamlet has become a city of 170,000 people with a growing gang problem where residents are demanding to know if the Tuesday shooting was justified. Police are investigating.
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The timeline provided by the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department suggests the shooting of Andy Lopez Cruz unfolded quickly in the city 50 miles north of San Francisco.