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A young boy is handed a gun by someone older, chased down a Southwest Side alley by a police officer and shot to death.
It’s a series of events now commanding the attention of Chicago, which had been anxiously awaiting the release of police body-camera video of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
A young boy is handed a gun by someone older, chased down a Southwest Side alley by a police officer and shot to death.
It’s a series of events now commanding the attention of Chicago, which had been anxiously awaiting the release of police body-camera video of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
But a similar scenario played out nearly 30 years ago when an officer shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in Brighton Park the youngest Chicago police shooting victim in recent memory.
Debra Fahrforth still doesn’t believe her son had a gun, as police said, when an officer shot 12-year-old Joey Chlopek the afternoon of June 6, 1992.
Mother whose 12-year-old son was killed by Chicago cop 30 years ago: Nothing has changed
By Sun-Times Media Wire article
Debra Fahrforth, the mother of 12-year-old Joey Chlopek who was shot by a Chicago police officer in 1992, poses with a photo of her and her son in her home in Willow Springs, Ill., Friday morning, April 16, 2021. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
CHICAGO - A young boy is handed a gun by someone older, chased down a Southwest Side alley by a police officer and shot to death.
It’s a series of events now commanding the attention of Chicago, which had been anxiously awaiting the release of police body camera video of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.