BREAKING: The ex-Philly police officer accused of shooting, killing 12-year-old TJ Siderio in March has been charged with murder, DA Larry Krasner just announced.
into the back passenger window of an unmarked police car that had four plainclothes officers inside. The car – with its emergency lights on – had approached Siderio and a 17-year-old wanted for questioning over a firearms offense near 18th and Barbara streets, police said.
After their car was shot, two officers got out and fired one shot each at Siderio, initially missing the boy, Commissioner Outlaw said. One of the officers, however, gave chase and fired two more rounds, one of which struck Siderio in the right side of his back and exited through the left side of his chest, she said.
The boy was holding a gun as he fled, but Outlaw would not say whether he dropped it before he was shot.
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