It's not an execution

A nightmare turned in to reality here in the Atlanta area recently:

When the red car passed by Jordin and the other youngsters on Monday, [9 year old] Jordin called out to the occupants that they had a bad wheel, police said.

The car stopped and a man in baggy clothes got out, approached the kids and then suddenly hit Jordin in the face with a hatchet, according to the police report. The car apparently took off, leaving the killer behind, Syblis said.

The police showed up:

When an officer tried to talk to Cabrera Borjas at the Chastain complex, he ran across Roswell Road to another apartment complex, said Syblis, the police spokesman.

Cabrera Borjas threw a tire at an officer, Alexis Powell, and broke the officer's arm, according to police. Then, Cabrera Borjas tried to come after Powell with a stick, police said.

Powell shot Cabrera Borjas and has been placed on routine administrative leave.

Borjas was pronounced dead at the hospital. The family, though, seems to think that he didn't do it and have hired a lawyer:

Meanwhile, a lawyer for the family of Cabrera Borjas, questioned whether the man shot and killed by Fulton County police was the same man who killed Jordin.

Attorney Richard W. Summers said interviews with residents at the Chastain and Chateau Villa apartments are "leading me to the conclusion that [police] may have shot the wrong guy and were over zealous and hasty in their actions."

He said he's talked to almost two dozen witnesses at both apartment complexes and is piecing together a timeline of Cabrera Borjas whereabouts Monday night.

Ok, let's give Mr. Summers the benefit of the doubt for the moment. Let's say, just for the sake of arguing that Cabrera Borjas wasn't plunging a hatchet in the boy's head - let's say he's in a car, riding around with his buddies or playing a videogame in his apartment.

1. Why did he run from the police? If he hadn't done anything wrong, no need to run.
2. Why did he assault a policeman with a tire, breaking the officer's arm?
3. Why did he attempt to assault the other officer with a stick? (Insert your own "don't bring a stick to a gunfight" joke here)

It sounds to me like Hatchet Man's friends and family (as well as their ambulance chaser and the media) are trying to paint this as a picture of the police wanting to make sure they shot, or executed, the "right" guy. But that's not the case - whether he was the man that murdered that child or not.