More than 100 people gathered in Chicago for a vigil and protest after the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old by a police officer. The demonstrations on Tuesday came a day after coroners said Pierre L Loury died at a hospital.
Chicago Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said the teen ran from a car believed to be connected to an earlier shooting. Roy said an officer chased the teen and an 'armed confrontation' resulted in the officer shooting Loury.
A weapon found at the scene was taken into evidence. But Loury's mother told CBS that her son didn't have a gun.
'No, he didn't have a gun, but they saying he did after the fact,' Hudson said.
The vigil was held at the site of the shooting and protesters then marched through the streets, sometimes disrupting traffic. The Chicago Tribune reported that Loury was shot and killed by an officer on Monday evening on the city's West Side.
Police declined on Tuesday to identify the officer involved in the shooting. There were 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers in the US in 2015. Patrol officers stopped a vehicle believed to have been involved in an earlier shooting in the area at about 7.30pm.
During the stop, a suspect got out of the vehicle and fled, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement.
'A brief foot pursuit ensued leading to an armed confrontation, between the fleeing offender and the officer,' police said in the statement.
'During that encounter, an officer discharged his service weapon fatally striking the offender.'
No police officers were injured in the incident, police said. See more photos below....
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