Baltimore City police are investigating an officer-involved shooting. Police said an officer shot a 13-year-old boy just after 4 p.m. Wednesday in the unit block of Aisquith Street near Baltimore Street. Baltimore police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the boy was holding a replica semiautomatic pistol and tried to run when approached by officers. Police said the boy displayed an exact replica of a Beretta 9 mm automatic pistol.

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Baltimore City police are investigating an officer-involved shooting.Police said an officer shot a 13-year-old boy just after 4 p.m. Wednesday in the unit block of Aisquith Street near Baltimore Street.Baltimore police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the boy was holding a replica semiautomatic pistol and tried to run when approached by officers. Police said the boy displayed an exact replica of a Beretta 9 mm automatic pistol."They got out of a car and engaged with a person who looked like he had a gun in his hand," Davis said. "That's what we're supposed to do that's what cops do."Davis said the boy did not obey officers' commands to stop. Police said two intelligence detectives not in uniform shot the boy twice in the lower body. His injuries appear to be non-life threatening, police said."No police officer wants to shoot a 13-year-old," Davis said. "I have no reason to believe that these officers acted inappropriately at this moment."Police talked with the boy's mother, who said she knew her son walked out of the house with the replica gun."Those police officers had no way of knowing it was not an actual firearm. It looks like a real firearm," Davis said.A witness, who identified himself as Bryan, said he saw the shooting as he was in his truck on Baltimore Street. The first thing he claims he saw was the boy running, drop a basketball he was carrying and then he saw two people chasing him."(The teen) turned towards them but he wasn't turning the gun towards them and I'm positive I heard him say, 'It's not real,'" Bryan said.Bryan said police yelled at the teen to drop the gun as they approached him before he motioned the gun upward, not toward the officers."He said, 'It's not real. It's not real,' and that quick, the male officer shot him twice in the leg," Bryan said.Police said they could not confirm Bryan's account of the incident. Bryan said he has been in contact with police but has not heard back from an investigator.Stay with wbaltv.com, the mobile app and 11 News for the latest on this story.Get the WBAL-TV News App