(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Elk Grove Village leaders have released an edited video presentation of 9-1-1 calls and police body camera footage from an encounter earlier this month that left a 24-year-old resident dead.
On Dec. 1, police officers fatally shot 24-year-old Jack Murray near his home in the 200 block of Fern Drive after emergency dispatchers received a call from Murray himself about a man with a knife.
Family members have said Murray was suffering a diabetic episode.
“Someone there has a knife?” the dispatcher asks in the recording.
“Yeah, and he’s going to hurt someone,” comes the reply.
“Is this person you?”
Murray seems to respond in the affirmative.
Once the call ends, the operator calls back and speaks with Murray’s father.
“Jack, are you okay?” he asks. “Do you want an ambulance?”
Finally, the presentation shows bodycam footage in which Murray can be seen approaching officers with a large knife. The officers tell him repeatedly to drop the knife and put his hands up. After Tasing him, police open fire and hit Murray and begin to administer first aid.
Murray was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
“It is our hope that providing more information about this incident will give everyone a better understanding of what took place and help in the process of healing,” Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson says in an introduction to the material released Monday (link here: WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT).
Officials say they provided the footage to Murray’s family and declined further comment, pending an investigation.
Attorneys for Murray’s survivors immediately criticized the edited “montage” released to the public, saying it was made with a “heavy hand of spin.” They said it does not show other angles of the confrontation that could help clarify what transpired.
“What we do know is what we already knew, and what we have maintained from the beginning. That day, Jack was physically injured, emotionally distressed, confused and slurring and not OK,” a statement from Romanucci & Blandin said.
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