Eric Bellomy News Today

Chicago taxpayers will spend $1.2 million to compensate the family of a 14-year old boy who was shot in the back and killed by a police officer during a holiday weekend that included five police shootings, two of them fatal.

A graduate of Stephen Gale Elementary School with plans to attend Chicago Math and Science Academy, Pedro Rios Jr. was one of five people shot by Chicago Police over the weekend of July 4th, 2014. The teen was shot in the back by an officer who claimed Rios pulled a gun out of his waistband and pointed it at the officer.