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in march of last year to report that he might be a danger to himself? reporter: david, this comes from the fbi. they re assisting local police in the case, saying that the suspect s mom reported he might try to commit suicide by cop. he was held by police. they removed a shotgun from his house and say that gun was not returned to him. david? victor oquendo leading us off tonight from indianapolis. victor, thank you. there is also news tonight in the deadly police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in chicago. surveillance video showing the boy with a 21-year-old in the minutes before they re confronted by police. the officer yelling to see his hands. authorities say a still frame of the video shows adam toledo holding what appears to be a gun allegedly tossing it, then shot and killed. and the video appears to show it all happened in less than a second. here s abc s alex perez tonight. reporter: tonight, newly released video showing 13-year-old adam toledo and 21-year-old ruben roma
John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Police Union, appeared Thursday on Cuomo Prime Time on CNN
Catanzara defended Officer Eric Stillman as justified in the shooting
Adam Toledo was shot dead by a Chicago cop during a foot chase on March 29
Chicago s police review board on Thursday released the bodycam footage
Catanzara said Stillman only had 8/10ths of a second to decide if a gun was still in Toledo s hands when he decided to shoot
Adam Toledo, 13, was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer on March 29
Prosecutors told a court that he was holding a gun when shot by Eric E. Stillman
But newly released footage shows that his hands were empty when he was shot
On Twitter Congresswoman AOC said the prosecutor lied about killing a child
She refuted the Cook County State s Attorney office s claim it was an error on behalf of the persecutor, saying he did not make an error. He lied.
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Adam Toledo was shot dead by Chicago cop Eric Stillman, 34, during a foot chase on March 29
Stillman joined the police department in 2015 and served as a patrol officer assigned to the Ogden District on the city s West Side
He had never shot anyone in the line of duty and records indicate that he also had nine use of force reports
On Thursday, Chicago s police review board on Thursday released bodycam footage of the shooting
An attorney for Adam s family said: Those videos speak for themselves. If you are shooting an unarmed child with his hands in the air it is an assassination