Texas - Student With Pellet Gun Is Killed by Police - NYTimes.com A 15-year-old student at a Brownsville middle school was shot and killed by police officers on Wednesday after he displayed a gun in the school's main hallway, the authorities said. The weapon was later identified as an air-powered .177-caliber pellet gun. The eighth grader, Jaime Gonzalez, had brandished the weapon in the hallway at Cummings Middle School, after most students were already in their classrooms. The student pointed the gun at Brownsville police officers who came to the scene, and he ignored numerous commands to drop it, police officials said. Two officers fired their weapons, and the student was shot twice. Police officials said he had assaulted a student before the officers arrived and told witnesses that he was going to confront the officers with the weapon.