Victor Perez, a 17-year-old autistic teen with cerebral palsy, was shot nine times​ by Pocatello police officers in Idaho.

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said.

The family of Victor Perez, a 17-year-old with autism and cerebral palsy who was shot by police, removed him from life support Saturday at Portneuf Medical Center.