Chicago officials release video showing fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo

Video footage released Thursday by Chicago officials shows what happened in the final moments of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer responding to a shots fired call last month.

The boy appears to have both hands empty and arms raised in the moment he was hit with a single shot to his chest, but still images show he appears to have been holding a gun just a moment before.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, a police watchdog, released extensive footage along with original documentation to the public. The video showing Toledo's death is extremely graphic and disturbing, and is taken from the body camera of the officer who shot the teen.

At around 2:30 a.m. on March 29, officers responded to a report of eight shots being fired in the Little Village neighborhood, when they encountered Toledo and then-21-year-old Ruben Roman, CBS News reported. Both Toledo and Roman attempted to flee.

In the bodycam footage, Roman is tackled by one officer while another takes chase after the fleeing 13-year-old.

The officer can be seen chasing Toledo down an alley at around 2:38 a.m., yelling to the teen, "Stop! Stop right f***ing now!"

Toledo stops and turns toward the officer, who then yells, "Show me your f***ing hands," then "Drop it!" before firing the shot.

WGN-TV reported video stills of the fast-moving footage shows that the 13-year-old "appears to have dropped a gun and raised his hands just before" he was shot. The outlet shared a video released by Chicago police showing the sequence of events that night in chronological order.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the bodycam video doesn't show Tol... (Read more)

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