Two plainclothes officers chased the boy after they heard gunfire and a rear window shattered in their unmarked car, but investigators are looking into whether he tossed the gun before he was hit.
, investigators are examining whether he had tossed a gun moments before a fatal bullet struck him in the back.
Four officers were sitting in an unmarked car when the episode began around 7:20 p.m. They were Edsaul Mendoza, Kwaku Sarpong, Robert Cucinelli and Alexander Camacho, according to police records obtained by The Inquirer. They were staking out the area because a 17-year-old boy and 20-year-old man had been seen on social media brandishing weapons, police sources said.
Philadelphia police investigators and the district attorney’s office Special Investigations Unit are probing the shooting. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office declined to comment, citing the investigation. Kim Tomasetti, the mother of the 17-year-old, who was not charged, said he told her the officers did not turn on their emergency lights or identify themselves as police before any shots were fired. The boys, she said, were afraid that someone in the car was about to attack them and didn’t know they were officers.
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