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Dexter Reed was shot at least 13 times when he was killed in a gun battle with Chicago police during a traffic stop last month in Humboldt Park, according to a...
CHICAGO — The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded. The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed’s family’s attorneys at a news conference outside the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District (11th) station ...
In the month since the shooting, Reed’s death has spurred calls for the CPD to cease its use of plainclothes tactical officers and to reexamine its policies on traffic stops.
The oversight agency investigating the shooting has reported that four officers fired nearly 100 rounds at Reed after he shot another officer in the wrist March 21 in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street.
Dexter Reed was shot at least 13 times when he was killed in a gun battle with Chicago police during a traffic stop last month in Humboldt Park, according to a newly released autopsy report.