Dying man tells cops that ‘Boo Walker’ shot him

Dying man tells cops that ‘Boo Walker’ shot him

WARREN

The dash cam video from a Warren police officer, who was among the first to arrive at the Sunoco gas station early Saturday when Richard Rollison IV, 24, was shot to death, shows Rollison telling police and his father that “Boo Walker” is the person who shot him.

Authorities later identified Boo Walker as TaShawn Walker, 26, of Baytown, Texas, the brother of Taemarr Walker, who was shot to death by a Warren police officer Oct. 19 on Risher Road Southwest.

“Boo Walker. That’s all I know, Bro,” Rollison said as he lay in the gas station parking lot, shot six times.

A police officer asked Rollison if he had a “beef” with Walker, and Rollison said, “No. Not at all.”

Richard Rollison III, the slain man’s father, was at the scene, talking to his son until ambulance personnel removed him and took him to St. Joseph Health Center.

He acknowledged to officers that he knew the man his son described as Boo.

Meanwhile, the opening of school at Warren G. Harding High School returned to normal Wednesday morning, and a group of parents stood outside the entrance in an effort to show support for them.

Barbara Snowden, a parent and grandparent of Warren School students, said the purpose of the group of five was to show the young people they care.

“It’s what Warren needs to get back to — of loving kids no matter who they are, that everything’s going to be OK,” she said.

The group consisted of ministers, parents and one school official, who greeted the students as they filed into the building.

“I’m here on behalf of the school system and Number 1 on behalf of the kids,” said Anthony Davis, the school district’s coordinator of family engagement. “We want parents and those concerned about the community to come out and allow their presence to be seen.”

Parents did this throughout the week at each of the district’s buildings, he said.

“We need to go back to the old ways where the community was watching over one another.”

Snowden said it appeared only a fraction of the 2,000 students at Harding went to school Tuesday, following posts on social media that caused fear. A larger number of students had come to school Wednesday, she said.