Police shoot to death tech student after she called 911 to report a suspicious person on Campus

21-year-old Scout Schultz, a Georgia Tech student, was shot to death by police on the Atlanta campus on Saturday, September 16, causing massive outrage in the United States and the international community.

Georgia Tech Police officers responded to a 911 call at 11:17 p.m reporting a suspicious person on the Atlanta campus. The caller described the suspicious person as a white male with long blond hair, white T-shirt, and blue jeans, possibly intoxicated and said he was holding a knife and possibly a gun. When police arrived, they saw Scout Schultz, 21, outside a dorm. 

In the video of the incident, Scout is seen walking toward police while they issued several warnings to her - what they believed was a knife not to move. Scout takes a few steps forward and an officer opens fire.

Scout, who identifies as intersex, neither male nor female, was pronounced dead at the Grady Memorial Hospital shortly after. Scout was the president of Pride Alliance, an LGBT organization on campus. What Scout was carrying, which the police thought was a knife or gun, was actually a multitool and it was not even extended.
It has now emerged that Scout was the one who called 911 to report a suspicious person. Scout, a computer engineering major in their fourth year at Georgia Institute of Technology, suffered from clinical depression and had spent time in counseling after attempting suicide by hanging in 2015. Three suicide notes were found in Scout's dorm room.
Family attorney L. Chris Stewart said the student was barefoot and "disoriented" in the middle of a "mental breakdown". The lawyer, who has represented the families of other victims of police-involved shootings, accused the officer who opened fire of overreacting to the circumstances. Stewart accused Georgia Tech of forcing the narrative that Schultz was a "knife-wielding" threat despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
Meanwhile, violence has erupted following the killing. A vigil was held on campus for Scout on Monday night, September 18th. The vigil ended peacefully but violence flared afterward when a group of protesters marched to the campus police station and set a police car on fire. 
University spokesman Lance Wallace said, after a peaceful vigil, about 50 protesters marched to the campus police department. A police vehicle was damaged and two officers suffered minor injuries, with one taken to a hospital for treatment. Police restored order relatively quickly, and three people were arrested and charged with inciting a riot and battery of an officer.
In a statement released through attorney Chris Stewart, Schultz's family urged protesters to remain peaceful.
"(W)e ask that those who wish to protest Scout's death do so peacefully. Answering violence with violence is not the answer," the statement said. "Our goal is to work diligently to make positive change at Georgia Tech in an effort to ensure a safer campus for all students."
Below is the video of Scout's encounter with police.