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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
where shots had recently been fired. mr. johnson resisted arrest and he ran into a public park and towards an occupied police vehicle that was arriving on the scene in that park. based on an objective review of the evidence and the law, we have determined that the prosecution could not establish e beyond a reasonable doubt that the actions of officer hernandez were not reasonable and permissible under the laws of the state of illinois. before we take questions, i would like to cover two important points. with respect to the officer shooting ronald johnson in the back. the fact that the officer hernandez shot ronald johnson in the back is one of many factors that had to be carefully considered and evaluated. even though mr. johnson was running away from hernandez and other officers, he was running towards a police vehicle containing two other responding officers and unknown members of the public inside that park, and furthermore, johnson could have quickly turned around to fire at the officers pursuing him or
up to speed on the second story are, and the second video, and now yet a gathering of the reporters in this second incident. >> well, here we go again, ashleigh, and a lot of people in chicago are calling to see this individu video. we are told that the video will be out later this afternoon, and people are bracing themselves for what they will see. we went to talk to the lawyer of ronald johnson's family last week and had an intimate conversation with him about what he saw on the video, and i will explain it like this, eight days before laquan mcdonald was shot, and this shooting happened. someone fired into the car, and johnson got out and started runni running. he tried to get away from the police officers and he was shot. apparently, that is caught on tape. but this are where the stories differ. the police said that the young man had a gun in his hand, and the family does not believe, and they have watched the video themselves, and they do not believe that the the gun would have stayed in his hand, but they believe that the gun was placed there afterwards, but they have been call ing fing fo public to see this video for month, because they want people
and king drive. at approximately 12:30 a.m. he left with the individuals a-b-c and d in a car that was driven by individual a. the driver was individual a, the front passenger was individual b, and the back seat passenger was individual c, and ronald johnson as the state attorney said was in the back seat positioned immediately behind the driver. as they left that location of approximately 53rd and king drive, shots were fired into the vehicle, and no one inside of the vehicle was struck, but there was however, extensive damage that was done to the vehicle. these are photographs talken by the forensic investigators after the shooting. as you can see, the rear window was shot out. there was also damage done to the front window as well as to side mirrors. while individual a drove away from the location, he indicated that he heard the sound of a
hernandez is the back seat passenger, and this vehicle is headed southbound on kings drive and as they are approaching, they are monitoring the radio communication, and they have a view of what is transpiring over here. and they have a vantage point and they are able to see ronald johnson running eastbound, sorry, southbound on king drive and they are able to to see the struggle of officer hooper and his efforts to stop ronald johnson, and they also see johnson knock hooper to the ground. and they see the officer get up and change course back through king drive and you will see that officer runs diagonally into the middle of the street into this park, washington park. >> and what unit is that? >> we will answer questions later. >> and just for the purposes of the radio, what unit is hernandez in? >> just keep going. >> at this time, the vehicle that officer hernandez is
>> we will get somebody over there. >> 10-4. th thanks. >> 6-4 boy. >> we got the ambulance on the way? >> 10-4, ambulance is rolling. >> and be advised that weapon recovered. >> 10-4, weapon recovered. >> we will play it again in slow motion, and couple of things to point out that you will see is that as johnson is coming around the corner, you will see as i pointed out officer gilliana chasing behind him, and they were the officers who called tout chase over the radio. here's johnson running around the the corner in the direction of hooper an monty. -- hooper and monty.