(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Several video clips released Thursday show a May 18 police foot chase that ended with an officer shooting a 13-year-old carjacking suspect.
Video from the gas station at Cicero and Chicago shows the masked boy being pursued by police at the pumps. He slows and turns with his arms outstretched before he is shot and falls.
“Shots fired! Shots fired by police!” one officer says into his radio.
Body camera video shows a cell phone lying next to the bleeding teen; officers call for an ambulance and move the teen away from the gas pumps.
Andrew M. Stroth, the attorney for the boy’s family, says the footage shows an unarmed person unjustifiably shot in the back. Legal representatives for the family released the videos after obtaining them from the Civilian Office of Accountability, which declined to publicly share them because the suspect is a minor.
An attorney for the officer who fired said he believed the boy was holding a gun in his hand when he was turning and the officer had to make a split-second decision to stop what he believed was a threat.
The family has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the police officer.
Authorities have previously said the 13-year-old boy was believed to have been involved in a carjacking in Oak Park. The foot chase that ended in gunfire followed a police traffic stop on the West Side.
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