state s attorney anita alvarez is going odiscuss the shooting death investigation of ronald johnson who is the 22-year-old man who was shot, and a video is yet to be released, and about one year-old is much at issue here. i want to warn you that if the video is shown, i want to delay it, in case there is immeasurable violence. i am here to discuss the cook county professional standards review of the 2014 shooting of ronald johnson by and on-duty chicago police officer. he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of 2012 in 2014 by chicago police officer george hernandez. officer hernandez was one of multiple officers who were responding to the emergency 9 # 1 calls of the gunshots being fired in the area of 53rd street and king drive on the city s
officers were exiting their vehicle when johnson ran behind their car and toward the nearby washington park and toward another police unit. a at this time, officer hernandez began pursuit of mr. johnson and then fired five shots. two of those shots struck mr. johnson, one in the back of the right e knee, and the second shot entered below mr. johnson s right armpit and exited the body near the left eye socket. mr. johnson was pronounced dead soon after being transported to the hospital from the scene. my office has prepared a written detailed analysis of the case which we will provide to all of you here today as well as to the public. this analysis provides a specific facts and details of this investigation as well as the legal analysis that goes into a charging decision in a case of this nature. we have also compiled a video presentation that including 911 calls, chicago police radio traffic exchange, and the dash
to put it in the the best perspective to the best of our abl, we put the zoned commu communication, and did an overlay to match up the zone communications with video. we will play that with you, and then a slow motion play of the relevant portion. one thing to keep in mind when you see the video, the time stamp that is marked on the dash cam recording is not accurate and it is delayed by approximately six minutes. as i indicated, you will not be seeing johnson struck by the gunshots. he fell forward and fell face down in the grass. and the radio communications that you hear pick up where we left off with the ones that we played previously about the schoo school. 352 is the school.
they then parked the car and exited that vehicle on foot. by this time, chicago police officers were en route to the scene in response to the multiple emergency 911 calls from the citizens reporting that shots had been fired many that area. the first two officers that arrived on the scene encountered one of the men who had returned to the scene with mr. johnson and the others. those officers were in the process of peeking to t is o ing to the car to investigate the shooting. but then others observed ronald johnson near that very same location. those officers saw that mr. johnson was carrying a gun and ordered him to stop and drop the weapon. mr. johnson did not comply with the officer s orders and instead, ran from the officers while holding the gun. he initially ran from 53rd street, turning south on to king drive where he encountered the
at that time, officer hernandez does discharge his weapon, and you will see the flash. he discharges the weapon a total of five times. and johnson continued to run into the park. you will not see johnson struck by those bullets. the position of johnson is such that he is in the park and out of to a angle of the camera. he was struck by two of five shots as the state s attorney indicated. one was lodged in the back of the knee, and the second was a through and through gunshot wound the lower back right shoulder which came through and exited near his left eye. what we are going to play for you is, as i indicated the dash cam recording is video only. it does not have an audio portion. to put n