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The family of Anthony Alvarez viewed footage Tuesday showing a Chicago police officer fatally shoot the 22-year-old last month in Portage Park, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which is investigating the shooting.
COPA spokesman Ephraim Eaddy confirmed that Alvarez’s family saw the footage but declined to give further details.
Though Eaddy did not offer an exact timeline of when footage would be made public, he said videos could be expected “well in advance of the city’s video release policy,” which gives COPA 60 days to publicly release footage of fatal police shootings.
Alvarez was shot and killed by an officer early on March 31 after a foot chase in the 5200 block of West Eddy Street. Alvarez allegedly pulled out a gun “which led to a confrontation with police,” and an officer shot him, police have said.
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Video released this morning shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot Anthony Alvarez as he ran from police with a gun in his hand in the Portage Park neighborhood.
A Chicago police officer yells “Drop the gun! Drop the gun!” before firing five shots from close range, according to the police bodycam video released by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates police shootings.
Person fatally shot by police in Little Village identified as 13-year-old boy
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Little Village early Monday, although no video and few details have been released so far.
Adam Toledo, 13, who lived in the neighborhood, was shot in his chest and later died, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
In a statement, police said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert about 2:35 a.m. and saw two males standing in an alley in the Southwest Side neighborhood.
One person, who was allegedly armed, ran from the scene and was shot by a police officer during an armed confrontation in the 2300 block of South Spaulding Avenue, police said. Farragut Career Academy High School is located at the end of the block.
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A 19-year-old Portage Park man was charged in a fatal shooting in December in Mayfair on the Northwest Side.
Julio Rubio-Gonzalez faces a count of first-degree murder in the Dec. 17, 2020, shooting of 19-year-old Carlos Cruz, Chicago police said.
About 12:50 p.m., Cruz was walking his dog in the 4000 block of West Wilson Avenue, when someone in a stolen white Nissan Maxima fired shots, striking him multiple times in the body, police said. He died at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
The stolen Nissan was found several blocks away in the 4400 block of North LaCrosse Avenue, and officers located the person of interest even farther west in the 4300 block of North Major Avenue, police said.