The officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago has been identified Eric Stillman. He was named in police reports provided by Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), which is currently investigating the incident. Stillman's attorney, Timothy M. Grace, confirmed his identity in a statement & noted he had been placed on administrative duties for 30 days.
The Chicago shooting happened in the early morning of March 29 when 2 police officers responded to reports of gunfire. They saw 2 people in an alley & chased after them. Authorities released extensive video from body-worn cameras, surveillance footage, gunfire detection data & 911 recordings on April 15 that further show the events of the night.
Toledo is seen in a video holding what may be a gun behind his back before dropping it behind a fence. Stillman is heard shouting for him to put his hands in the air, & as Toledo appeared to be lifting his hands in the air, the officer opened fire & a bullet struck the boy in the chest. Stillman & another officer attempted chest compressions on Toledo, but he was pronounced dead on the scene.
Stillman's attorney said in a statement that, "The juvenile offender had the gun in his right hand, came to a fence, looked at the officer which could be interpreted as attempting to acquire a target & began to turn to face the officer attempting to swing the gun in his direction.… The officer had no place to take cover or concealment, the gun was being orientate[d] in his direction & he was left with no other option."
Adeena Weiss Ortiz, an attorney for the Toledo family, said at a press conference on Thursday that family wanted to emphasize that the teenager did not have a gun in his hand at the exact moment he was shot.
"If he had a gun, he tossed it.… The officer said, 'Show me your hands,' [& Toledo] complied," Weiss Ortiz said. "[The officer] is trained to not shoot somebody unarmed. He is trained to look, he is trained not to panic."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police were working Friday to identify a gunman & determine his motive for opening fire at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, killing 8 people & taking his own life in the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S.
Deputy Chief Craig McCartt of the Indianapolis police said the gunman started randomly shooting at people in the parking lot late Thursday night & then went into the building & continued firing. He said the gunman apparently died by suicide shortly before police entered the building.
“There was no confrontation with anyone that was there,” he said. “There was no disturbance, there was no argument. He just appeared to randomly start shooting.”
McCartt said 4 people were killed outside the FedEx processing facility & another 4 inside. Several people were also wounded, including 5 taken to the hospital.
The carnage took just a couple of minutes. “It did not last very long,” he said.
Officials with the coroner’s office said they have not been able to get to the scene to identify the victims because evidence is still being collected.
In the wake of the shootings, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the community must guard against resignation & “the assumption that this is how it must be & we might as well get used to it.”
It was the latest in a recent string of mass shootings across the U.S. Last month, 8 people were fatally shot at massage businesses across the Atlanta area & 10 died in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.
“I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand & he starts firing and he starts yelling stuff that I could not understand,” Levi Miller told WTHR-TV. “What I ended up doing was ducking down to make sure he did not see me because I thought he would see me and he would shoot me.”
Juelz Santana is staying grounded in New Jersey, a judge just denied his big trip to sunny South Florida -- this after the feds claim the rapper failed a drug test -- but his team believes it's a mistake.
According to new legal docs, the Dipset MC was asking for permission to fly down to Miami this month for work, but when he asked the court for approval, the feds said he wasn't fully following the rules of his supervised release, and a judge put the kibosh on the whole thing.
Remember ... Juelz is on supervised release after serving 19 months in prison as part of a 27-month sentence in his airport drug case. So, he has to get permission to travel outside NJ, and take mandatory drug tests.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Body camera footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy last month shows the officer yelling “Drop it!” at the teen right before he opens fire.
A still frame taken from the jumpy nighttime footage appears to show that Adam Toledo wasn’t holding anything and had his hands up, or partially up, when the officer shot him in the chest. Police say the teen had a handgun on him that morning, and the bodycam footage shows the officer shining a light on a handgun on the ground near Toledo after he shot him.
The footage shows that it took 19 seconds from which the officer exited his squad car to when he shot the teen. After getting out of the vehicle, the officer chases Toledo on foot down an alley for several seconds and yells “Police! Stop! Stop right (expletive) now!”
As the teen slows down, the officer yells “Hands! Hands! Show me your (expletive) hands!”
Toledo then turns toward the camera, the officer yells “Drop it!” and midway between repeating that command, he opens fire and the teen falls down. While approaching the wounded Toledo, the officer radios in for an ambulance. He can be heard imploring the boy to “stay awake,” and as other officers arrive, the officer who apparently fired the shot says he can’t feel a heartbeat and begins administering CPR. Other officers can be heard imploring Toledo to stay awake.
Before the video and other investigation materials were posted on the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s website, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a news conference during which she urged the public to remain peaceful and reserve judgment until the independent board can complete its investigation.
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Two teens have been apprehended in Utah days after allegedly killing a man whose burned remains were found inside a garage.
One of the suspects in the brutal murder, according to police, is the victim's daughter.
PEOPLE learns that Daniel Halseth, 45, was found stabbed to death on Friday, after Las Vegas firefighters extinguished a small but intentionally-set fire at his home.
Police had also been contacted by Halseth's mother, who told them that she hadn't heard from him for days.
Investigators say that Halseth's body was located in the garage. Later, inside the home, authorities found evidence of both an extensive clean-up as well as a large burn area in the living room and accelerants.
The slain man's body had been placed in the garage prior to the start of the blaze, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police alleges in a statement.
Police also found a chainsaw, a circular saw and a hand saw inside the residence. The latter, they allege, was covered in blood, and authorities found tissue in between the teeth of the saw.
Two bloody knives were also allegedly recovered.
Authorities believe that the fire was started to cover up Halseth's homicide.
At this point, investigators are not commenting on a motive, but have alleged that Aaron Guerrero, 18, and Halseth's 16-year-old daughter, Sierra Halseth, carried out the killing.
The two were arrested in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Tuesday, and are already being extradited back to Las Vegas, where they're each charged with open murder.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Four Muncie police officers have been indicted on charges accusing them of using excessive force during arrests or of trying to cover up that misconduct, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday.
Officers Joseph Chase Winkle, 34, & Jeremy Gibson, 30, & Sgt. Joseph Krejsa, were initially charged in a 12-count indictment in March 2020.
But acting U.S. Attorney John Childress announced Wednesday that a 17-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges all 3 with additional counts while also charging Officer Corey Posey, 28.
Winkle now faces 11 felony offenses for alleged excessive force that includes kicking, punching, knee-striking & using a Taser without justification on 7 people during arrests, injuring them. He is also accused of writing false reports about that alleged excessive force.
The allegations stem from events that took place between March 2018 & February 2019, when Joe Winkle — Joseph Chase Winkle’s father — was police chief.
Joseph Chase Winkle is on administrative leave without pay & has also been suspended by the Muncie Police Merit Commission. Gibson & Posey are on administrative leave, while Krejsa is in the process of retiring from the department.
Gibson faces 2 counts alleging he used excessive force on 2 people, including punching them without justification during arrests & 1 count alleging he wrote a false report about 1 of those arrests.
Krejsa faces 2 counts alleging that he wrote false reports related to 2 allegations of excessive force against Winkle, while Posey faces 1 count of obstruction & 1 count of writing a false report about 1 of Winkle’s arrests.
The maximum penalty for the deprivation-of-rights offenses is 10 years in prison. The maximum penalty for false report offenses is 20 years.
The Muncie Police Department’s current leader, Chief Nate Sloan, said in a statement Wednesday that the department “continues to focus on community engagement, policy revision, officer accountability & continuing education & training for officers.”
Muncie’s current mayor, Dan Ridenour, said in a statement that “we believe that the city administration and the police department have a zero tolerance for these types of actions. We will continue to hold to that and work with anything the justice department needs during their investigation.”
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