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Teen killed by police in New York to be laid to rest

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UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy shot to death by police in upstate New York after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at officers is being laid to rest. Funeral director Jim Friedel says services for Nyah Mway will take place at the Friedel, Williams & Edmunds funeral home in Utica on Saturday morning. He says a ceremony will follow in a local cemetery. Mway was killed June 28 after Utica police say he ran from officers after being stopped on the street. The state attorney general’s office is investigating the shooting.

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