| By David Gutman, Political Reporter and Kate White for the
Gazette-Mail
The parents of a Mercer County teen killed by a state trooper last year are suing that trooper and the West Virginia State Police.
Timothy Hill, 18, was unarmed when Senior Trooper B.D. Gillespie shot and killed him in the early morning hours of June 13, 2014, following a brief struggle at the foot of Hill's driveway in Kegley.
During the struggle, Gillespie pepper-sprayed Hill and hit him with a baton before they both tumbled to the bottom of a ditch where Gillespie said Hill reached for the trooper's gun. Gillespie then shot Hill twice, once in the head and once in the chest.
Hill's parents, Michelle and Robert Hill Jr., claim the shooting was malicious and done with reckless disregard of their son's rights.
The shooting was "atrocious, intolerable and so extreme and outrageous as to exceed the bounds of decency and morality," attorneys wrote in the complaint filed Tuesday in Kanawha Circuit Court.
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