Adam Toledo taking pictures: Interim CPD Superintendent Eric Carter recommends firing Officer Eric Stillman, who shot 13-year-old

CHICAGO (WLS) — Interim Chicago Police Superintendent Eric Carter has really helpful the Chicago Police Board hearth an officer blamed for the taking pictures dying of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

It has been two years since Adam Toledo was shot and killed by a police officer. Officer Eric Stillman had chased the 13-year-old into an alley in Little Village in March 2021.


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He fired a single shot into the boy’s chest, a cut up second after Toledo dropped a handgun and raised his arms.

Now, formal disciplinary fees have been filed with the Chicago Police Board to doubtlessly hearth Stillman.

It comes on the advice of Interim Police Superintendent Eric Carter, who states that the officer violated a number of division insurance policies together with illegal or pointless use of his firearm.

Carter’s predecessor David Brown had solely really helpful a five-day suspension for the officer. The Prepare dinner County state’s legal professional declined to press any legal fees within the case.

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The police board will maintain hearings on Stillman’s potential termination starting Could 1.

Stillman’s legal professional Tim Grace launched a press release saying, “The Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace investigated this case and appropriately concluded that using drive by Officer Stillman was correct and inside Illinois regulation. There isn’t any cause or justification for the Metropolis of Chicago to have sought termination on this case. The members of the Chicago Police Division proceed to work underneath amazingly troublesome circumstances, but nonetheless come to work every day to guard the residents from the gun-wielding offenders who terrorize our Metropolis. The work of the women and men of the Chicago Police Division shouldn’t be ostracized however slightly given the suitable quantity of appreciation that’s deserved. Adam Toledo’s dying is a tragedy, however a tragedy however that was brought on by the gang violence that’s epidemic on our streets not by Officer Stillman. We now enter the subsequent section of Officer Stillman’s lengthy journey which is to try to separate him from the Chicago Police Division. It’s not solely a tragic day for the law enforcement officials, and public security but additionally to all Chicagoans. We sit up for presenting our case to the Police Board and consider his actions can be deemed justified.”

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ABC7 has reached out to the Toledo household for remark.