Chicago Releases Video Showing Fatal Police Shooting Of 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo - NPR

Two boys hold signs at an April 6 news conference, days after a Chicago police officer fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

Two boys hold signs at an April 6 news conference, days after a Chicago police officer fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo!

Chicago has released video footage showing the fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo, more than two weeks after the 13-year-old was killed during a foot chase in the Little Village neighborhood!

A graphic and disturbing video captures what police have described as an alleyway confrontation between Toledo and an officer identified as Eric Stillman in the early morning of March 29.

The boy, who is standing near a wooden fence, appears to stop, and at 2 minutes and 3 seconds, the officer commands, "Hands.

The blast rings out at 2 minutes and 5 seconds — 20 seconds after the officer began the foot pursuit.

At 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the officer asks, "Where you shot?" as he lifts Toledo's sweatshirt, revealing his torso.

At 3 minutes and 30 seconds, the officer who fired at Toledo says, "I'm going to start CPR.

Stillman, the officer who shot Toledo, is on administrative duty.

Bracing for the release of the videos, the Toledo family's attorney issued a joint statement with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, pleading for a peaceful response from the community.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which is investigating the shooting, after some public deliberation decided to publish the body camera footage and other materials in an effort to be transparent with the public — but only after showing it to the Toledo family and giving the family two days to process the boy's final moments.

David Brown, superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, said at a news conference that a gunshot-detection system reported shots in the 2300 block of South Sawyer Avenue around 2:30 a.m.

Cook County prosecutors said on Saturday that Roman had fired the gun at a passing vehicle, setting off the notification system, but that Toledo had been holding it during the encounter with police and was warned repeatedly to drop it before police shot him, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Assistant Public Defender Courtney Smallwood argued that Toledo died "at the hands of the Chicago police officers, not my client," saying there was no proof that the gun belonged to Roman or that he had brought Toledo outside with him in the first place, the Sun-Times reported.

Brown, the police superintendent, said this month that the delay was because Roman, whom he did not name, gave a false name for Toledo to police and because his fingerprints did not match any database records.

Ultimately, Brown said, police were able to identify him by looking through resolved missing persons reports.

The boy's mother, Elizabeth Toledo, reported her son missing on March 26 but told detectives the next day that her son had returned, Brown said.

When police contacted her again on March 31 to say his description matched that of an unidentified person in the morgue, she said he had left home again either late March 27 or early March 28, according to Brown.

And he was shot by the hands of another officer," Weiss-Ortiz said.

The Toledo family viewed the video and other materials related to the shooting on Tuesday, COPA said, but requested that they not be released immediately "as the family continues to grieve their loss."

To prepare for possible protests, the Chicago Police Department canceled days off for thousands of officers in specialized units, the Sun-Times reported, and is prepared to reschedule thousands of other personnel to 12-hour shifts

For years, activists and experts have advocated for Chicago police to adjust their department guidance on foot chases, saying it can lead to unnecessary violent confrontations, Smith, of WBEZ, told NPR