Andrew David Mays would have turned 19 years old Tuesday, but his rap sheet was already longer than some career criminals.

        A Boone County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed Mr. Mays early Monday at a rest stop on Interstate 75 in Florence. Police said Mr. Mays pulled a pellet gun on a Florence officer while sitting in a stolen sport utility vehicle.

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        The teen-ager has a file at the Ingham County, Mich., prosecutor's office going back several years, said Chief Assistant Prosecutor Joyce Draganchuk. Mr. Mays spent at least part of his teen-age years living outside Lansing, Mich.

        When Mr. Mays was fatally shot, he was wanted in Michigan on two separate warrants and on probation for 14 convictions in Florida.

        One Michigan warrant was issued on a felony larceny charge for allegedly stealing a telephone from an automobile in 1999, said Ms. Draganchuk. If convicted, he faced up to five years in prison on that charge alone.

        In another case, Mr. Mays was found guilty of two felony counts of larceny from an automobile. Ms. Draganchuk said Mr. Mays was sentenced to probation and placed in a special program for first-time offenders under the age 21. A bench warrant was then issued for his arrest for violating the terms of his probation.

        Mr. Mays then moved to Florida, where he again got in trouble with the law. Records from the Florida Department of Corrections show 14 convictions, including nine counts of breaking into an occupied structure, two counts of grand theft auto, resisting an officer with violence and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer or firefighter. In January, a judge sentenced Mr. Mays to six years supervised probation for those crimes, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

        Court records show Mr. Mays got into an altercation with an officer in Pinellas Park, Fla., but on Tuesday officers there couldn't find the offense report or provide more details about the altercation.

        The string of events that led to the fatal shooting in Kentucky started when a Florence police officer spotted Mr. Mays sleeping in a stolen 1992 Ford Explorer. The SUV had been reported stolen from a outlet store parking lot in Calhoun, Ga., on Sunday.

        Boone County Lt. James Beach, called in as backup, shot and killed Mr. Mays, police said, but only after Mr. Mays started the SUV and pointed a pellet gun at the Florence officer. The pellet gun had been made to closely resemble a Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol.

        Florence police, the Boone County Sheriff's Department, and the Boone County coroner are all investigating the shooting. All three agencies say preliminary results from their investigations indicate the shooting was justified.

        An autopsy conducted Monday shows Mr. Mays died of a gunshot wound to the chest, said deputy coroner Robert McDaniel. He said a second bullet fired by Lt. Beach grazed Mr. Mays' hip.

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