The department said that two officers fired their weapons, wounding a Chicago man identified by the Cook County medical examiner as Paul O’Neal, 18, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Police said three officers shot Paul O’Neal Thursday night after he sideswiped a patrol auto and hit a parked vehicle while driving a stolen Jaguar, injuring some officers.
Although a formal investigation is still ongoing, “Johnson has pledged that CPD will conduct a thorough and fact based administrative review”, Guglielmi said.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson relieved two officers of their police powers Friday.
Under department policy, the officers were placed on 30 days’ administrative duty.
Autopsy results showed he died of a gunshot wound to the back.
They pulled over the driver in the 7400-block of South Merrill Avenue in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday.
Guglielmi said that although IPRA is handling the investigation of the officers involved in the shooting, “We are also looking at what policies may have been violated” and use the findings for training of officers.
Authorities have identified the man shot to death by Chicago police during a stolen vehicle investigation late Thursday.
While Chicago’s police are being forced to answer to IPRA, many have some questions for IPRA itself. No one was hurt.
The U.S Department of Justice has also advised police departments not to shoot at moving vehicles, even when a suspect is driving toward an officer.
On July 8, O’Neal told friends in a foreboding message on his Facebook page that if he were to die, he wanted them to “wear all white to my funeral”. Three people in the crowd held up stop signs, one saying “Cops stop killing us”.
The other person in the auto, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested and charged with a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle, police said Saturday. Chicago Police First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante says the driver of the Jaguar then put the vehicle in drive, sideswiping a squad auto and a parked vehicle.
As the officers got out of their auto, the driver of the Jaguar “put the vehicle in drive and literally forced his way out”, First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante said at the scene. The Jaguar was blocked in by at least two police vehicles.
O’Neal was black; police have not provided information on the officers’ races.
Now an issue that the department and IPRA must address is whether officers followed department policy by shooting at the vehicle.
A 17-year-old boy who was also in the auto was taken into police custody. Some officers suffered non life-threatening injuries.
The statement did not say a gun was recovered.
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Department officials say investigators have retrieved body cameras and cameras on squad auto dashboards to determine whether officers followed the department’s deadly force policy when they opened fire on the fleeing vehicle.
