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>> im going to take you with me, step-by-step in my investigation. >> the podcast was a finalist for the pulitzer prize, but shapearl is not sure the people she really wants to hear her are listening. >> i have no faith in chicago police department that they will solve my sons murder. >> so your mission is not over? >> no. i will keep fighting for courtney until my last breath, until they bring me a convicted murderer. >> you know that wont even the scales. >> no. but i feel like my son deserves...

There are no drugs in his system, the police review later said traumatic shock made him combative. a spokesman for the paramedics told us courtney was handcuffed for medical reasons and he was not in custody. they are claiming that people who are experiencing trauma sometimes fight because theyre frantic. >> handcuffing is not something that is normal, even if the person is violent and agitated. >> we check that with several experts who trained paramedics. they told us that while gunshot victims...

A department that had unprotected courtney, or served her. she went to meet with the cpd again and once again she was recording. by this time her relationship with detectives had deteriorated. and she challenged them on their record. >> you only have a 26% murder solve rate in the city of chicago. >> you know people can talk about the police department as far as that goes, but its the community thats failing here. >> the sergeant said his detectives had been working courtneys case hard. >> someb...

In spite of the reassuring words about working the case into out it looked as if they had never set up interviews with any of courtneys friends. you understand that in this country there is almost no family of any homicide victim who believes that the police are doing enough. everybody wants to see more of an effort? >> but, i dont think theyre a lot of families who have access to the evidence that i had. >> after months investigating her sons case, getting her hands on those reports, recording ...

>> and he was like, man, you know i just darted reading this book im writing all the things that i want to accomplish in my life. he was just so happy. >> chris says courtney was headed home, so how did he end up in northwest chicago? >> you know, i started asking who lives there? who do we know that lives there? why would he be there? >> finally someone at the hospital put two and two together. that neighborhood was where alma lived. >> and i remember his cousin saying whos alma? where she? >> ...

>> send an ambulance right away. >> and suddenly something else was clear to shapearl, something that made her angry all over again. nowhere on the available video did she see courtney being violent, agitated or a danger to others as is written in the paramedics report. what she did see was her son talking to police, answering their questions. >> victims male, his name is courtney copeland. he gave me his date of birth. >> we were able to see for our own eyes that what they said about him was a ...

Comforting to your son. we know that for a fact. >> the detective said they had already spent time knocking on doors looking for witnesses, so far, without much luck. >> we have a lack of witnesses. and thats any case, your sons case, any case, you want witnesses. you need people to tell you things that happened. >> she thought that she could help. she told detectives shimon had contacted her on facebook. that tipster set on the same night courtney was shot, he had seen three men driving around ...

The footage. >> and so that heighten my suspicions, again. >> she filed public records request, organize rallies. and enlisted the help of a nonprofit journalism foundation called the invisible institute, 500 days after courtneys murder, shapearl was allowed to view the video police had found of her sons final night. she quickly realized she had been wrong, courtney wasnt shocked by police. you came to believe that police were not involved in the shooting? >> yes. the evidence did not point to t...