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EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Police in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond said Wednesday that a naked 17-year-old high school student was not armed when he was fatally shot by police after breaking into a home. The Oklahoma state medical examiner’s office identified the teen as Isaiah Mark Lewis. Police initially said he was an adult after the Monday shooting. Officers had been searching for the teen for about an hour after a woman called… Read at AP News