Disturbing bodycam footage released by Chicago police shows the moment a city cop shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month — with the officer identified for the first time as Eric Stillman.
“Police, stop, stop right f—-g now,” Stillman is heard saying as he chased the teen down an alley. “Hands. Show me your f—-g hands.”
“Drop it, drop it,” the 34-year-old cop yells, before Toledo is seen turning around and the cop fires a single shot.
The seventh-grader, who appears to be raising his hands a split second before he was shot, is then seen collapsing onto the ground.
“Shots fired, shots fired,” the cop radios in.
“You alright?” he asks the teen, who is splattered with blood. “Where you shot?”
Prosecutors had said Toledo had a gun in his right hand when he turned around - but admitted on Thursday that the attorney who made that claim had “failed to fully inform himself,” a local CBS affiliate reported.
Police in the Windy City maintain the boy had a gun right before he turned, and that a weapon was found nearby afterwards. They had previously described the fatal encounter as an “armed confrontation.”
The graphic footage was released by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability
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