Chicago Cop Shoots Teen scaling fence | 16-year-old Pierre L. Loury shot killed by Chicago police | Chicago Cop Shoots Teen scaling fence Teen was fatally shot by cop as he was scaling fence, according to police source, witness An autopsy showed the teen suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. Citing a preliminary investigation, First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante said the lone officer who chased the teen opened fire after the teen turned and pointed a gun at him. A semi-automatic weapon was recovered at the scene, Escalante said. It marked the fifth police-involved shooting so far this year and the third fatal one. A woman who said she witnessed the shooting told the Tribune the teen was shot as he was scaling a fence. Police kill person sought in earlier shooting: Cops A teen boy who police said fled a car that was believed to be tied to an earlier shooting died in a confrontation with officers April 11, 2016, in the 3400 block of West Grenshaw Street in the Homan Square neighborhood. "They shot him in the air," she said. "His pants leg got caught on the fence and he hit the ground. If he hadn't gotten shot, he would have cleared the fence." The woman spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she feared backlash from police. She said she had denied to police that night that she had seen anything. A law enforcement source confirmed that before he was shot, Loury was trying to hop a fence and that his clothing had become entangled in the fence. Police said Harrison District officers on routine patrol attempted to stop the car containing Loury about 7:40 p.m. Monday in the 3400 block of West Grenshaw Street because it matched the description of a vehicle from an earlier shooting. Chicago police scanner traffic archived on Broadcastify.com suggested the car had been involved in a shooting about a half-hour earlier a few miles away in the Little Village neighborhood. But on Tuesday, law enforcement sources raised doubts of a connection to that homicide but still believed the car containing Loury was involved in another shooting earlier that night that may or may not have resulted in injuries. Family says boy, 16, fatally shot by cop had scrapes with law but no major trouble Family says boy, 16, fatally shot by cop had scrapes with law but no major trouble The driver of that car — believed to be female, according to the scanner traffic — had gotten away after officers pursued Loury on foot and is still wanted by police, Escalante said. Escalante said Loury had "prior contact" with police and that police considered him a documented gang member. He also said the officer involved in the shooting would be placed on paid desk duty for at least 30 days — a new department policy after an officer fatally shot a college student wielding a baseball bat on the day after Christmas and accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old neighbor as well, according to police. On Monday, the woman who said she witnessed the shooting heard police sirens and noise about 7:40 p.m. as she began to prepare dinner. She said she then heard someone yell "we got a jumper, we got a jumper," so she peered out a window. She said she saw a young boy whom she recognized from the neighborhood trying to jump over a fence. She said she did not see a gun in his hand, but it was dark. A video shot by someone in the neighborhood and posted on Facebook showed detectives approach the boy from the other side of the fence, then gather around the body, shining flashlights across the yard. The woman who said she witnessed the shooting told the Tribune she saw a paramedic check the boy's pulse and heard him say he was still alive. Loury was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 8:27 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. On Tuesday, Loury's family and friends gathered at the two-flat apartment building in East Garfield Park where his mother lives. Pierre's grandmother, Catherine Hudson, said she was sleeping when her daughter called to tell her of the shooting by police. The grandmother said she was fearing the worst "but praying for the better." The family had been mentioned in a 2000 Tribune story about the high rate of truancy at Rezin Orr High School. His mother, then an 18-year-old junior at the West Side high school, said she missed school for a number of days to care for her then-infant son. "It's not like I'm just out hanging in the streets," she told members of Orr's truancy crew who had stopped by her home at the time. "My baby needs me at home. That's where I'm going to be, school or not." His family said Loury was the oldest of five children, an aspiring rapper who attended Community Christian Alternative Academy in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood. "He's a typical Chicago teen male, no different than any other young man living in this city, facing some of the same challenges and trials and tribulations," Winters said in the vestibule of the two-flat.

• published: 13 Apr 2016
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