Video After The Jump
CHICAGO (AP) — The agency that investigates Chicago police shootings will release body camera video of an officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy, first to the boy’s family & then to the public.
Ephraim Eaddy, a spokesman for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, told The Associated Press that it remains unclear when the video of Monday shooting death of Adam Toledo will be released, but that it will be soon.
Eaddy said Thursday that the police accountability board was legally prohibited from releasing the video of Monday’s shooting because the teen was a minor. But on Friday, he said further analysis of the law led the board to conclude that it could release the footage.
The video comes from a body camera of an officer who as at the scene of the shooting, & although Eaddy declined to say if it was from the body camera of the officer who shot the teen, he said it captures the foot pursuit of the teen & the shooting itself.
The shooting happened at about 2 a.m. on Monday. According to police, officers were dispatched to an area in the Little Village neighborhood after the department’s ShotSpotter technology detected the sound of gunfire nearby. When they arrived, Toledo & a 21-year-old man ran away. While chasing the teen, there was an “armed confrontation” during which the officer shot him once in the chest, police said. He died at the scene. The 21-year-old man was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
Police said investigators recovered a gun near the shooting scene, but the department hasn’t said whether the teen fired it or was holding it during the chase. The officer was placed on administrative leave, which is standard practice in police shootings. But police haven’t released the name of the officer who shot the teen, which is typical for the department early on during such investigations.
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