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Organs of teen shot in standoff to be donated
Associated Press
Published January 15, 2006
LONGWOOD - The 15-year-old boy shot by police while brandishing a pellet gun in his middle school was clinically brain dead Saturday but was being kept alive to donate his organs, his family's attorney said.
Christopher Penley was expected to die late Saturday or today, family attorney Mark Nation said.
Earlier, Kelly Swofford, a family spokeswoman and neighbor of the boy's parents, Ralph and Donna Penley, said Christopher had died and that the family was "devastated."
Christopher Penley of Winter Springs was accused of pulling out the pellet gun in a classroom Friday and pointing it at other students, then leading deputies and SWAT team members on a chase that ended in a restroom when he raised the gun at a deputy.
Nation said the boy's father went to the school to attempt to talk his son out of the situation.
"When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot," Nation said.
The boy's father, Ralph Penley, was "extremely angry," Nation said.
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