Eighteen-year-old student who went to Aliquippa High School who was shot and killed by an ATF agent in Aliquippa was armed at the time of the shooting, according to an FBI spokeperson

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) An FBI spokesperson recently told KDKA-TV that eighteen-year-old Kendric Curtis, a senior at Aliquippa High School who was shot and killed by an ATF agent in Aliquippa last night, was armed at the time of the shooting. According to officials, this shooting happened on Waugaman Street at the Linmar Terrace housing complex in Aliquippa around 6:20 p.m. yesterday. Aliquippa Mayor Dwan Walker confirmed that an ATF agent shot Curtis and sources told KDKA that Curtis was shot in the head. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office, Curtis was flown to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and died there shortly after 3 a.m. this morning. It is unclear at this time what led to this shooting.