Update 1 p.m. Friday: Attorney David Houston who is representing the family of Logan Clark said the 14- year-old had a stroke Friday morning and is in emergency surgery.

Lawyer questions district's policy after officer-involved shooting at Hug

Original Story: In a series of Facebook posts written in the hours after his son was shot by a school police officer, Justin Clark defended his son and lashed out at police, questioning why the officer didn't try to use less-than-lethal force. The posts were removed Thursday evening.

In a post written at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, Clark said his 14-year-old son Logan Clark's condition was improving.

"It looks like he is doing a lot better and will pull through," Clark wrote, adding that he's not out of the woods yet.

Logan Clark was shot once by a school police officer as he lunged at students with a large knife in a courtyard at Hug High School on Wednesday morning, Reno Police Chief Jason Soto said. Under the region's officer-involved shooting protocol, Reno police is leading the investigation into whether the shooting was justified.

Reno police Lt. Zack Thew said Logan Clark remains in critical but stable condition at Renown.

In a post Thursday morning, Justin Clark called on the public to send him any video of the shooting and accused the police of "deleting evidence."

"They (are) deleting all evidence they can and if they did nothing wrong why would they (be) doing this," he wrote. "The family just wants to let the evidence speak for itself."

Videos surface on social media of officer-involved shooting at Hug High School

Clark did not provide any proof or details of specific videos being deleted. His lawyer, David Houston, could not be reached for comment.

Thew said detectives have not deleted any video or photographs.

"I can assure you we haven’t deleted any evidence," Thew said. "We did collect evidence from some students' phones but we did not delete any of that."

Thew said the original video remains on the witness's device after the collection process.

He also said police have not requested any individuals remove video of the incident from social media sites.

"No, we have not asked a single individual to remove any postings of the video," Thew said. "As a matter of a fact we are continually checking social media to identify video that we don’t have."

A Hug Hawks Twitter account posted a request for students to remove "video that is inappropriate" and to "come together as a school in solidarity."

Thew said detectives are combing through interviews and evidence from scores of students.

In an earlier post, Clark questioned why the school police officer "pulled his side arm" and not his Taser. It's not clear whether the officer carried a Taser. The Reno Gazette-Journal has submitted several public records requests to find out what standard equipment is carried by school police officers.

"I would like some public support in the battle with the city that's sure to come from this," Justin Clark wrote. "My son was a a superior athlete and has lost part of his lung...Now he won't have the ability that he had before, so he won't have the chance to go to college or any other way to use this gift. Cuz it's gone."

Thew said the decision to use deadly force is at the center of the investigation, so he withheld comment pending its completion.

But national police training expert Maria Haberfeld told the Reno Gazette-Journal's Mark Robison that police officers are trained on using a "continuum of force," in which the amount of force is based on the level of threat to the police officer or other people.

“Taser is not used by all police forces and the deployment of Tasers vary by departmental rules," she told Robison. "In general, Tasers are considered to be a step below the final step of deadly force, on the Continuum of Force training and, though they are a step below the use of a gun, it is the officer's discretion that trumps the order of the Continuum,” she said.