Daily News | Former Philadelphia police officer accused of killing 12-year-old TJ Siderio held for trial on murder charges
After a more than three-hour preliminary hearing that featured video footage of the fatal shooting and testimony from a police officer who was on the scene, Municipal Court Judge Charles Hayden ruled that former officer Edsaul Mendoza shouldSiderio was the youngest person ever killed by a city police officer.District Attorney Larry Krasner charged
Four plainclothes officers in an unmarked car were staking out the area after seeing a social media post that showed a teen with one gun in his pants pocket and another gun at his feet.Sarpong, Robert Cucinelli, and Alexander Camacho — were part of the South Task Force, a tactical unit that uses social media and on-the-ground surveillance to find and seize illegal guns and arrest suspected felons across South Philadelphia.
Sarpong testified that the unit had not received any information that TJ or the teen with him had guns that night , and that the officers had been looking for the third teen who had posted photos of guns. The teen boy with TJ enclosed by 18th Street and Moyamensing Avenue. Prosecutors played surveillance footage that showed someone in dark clothing — identified as TJ — running down Barbara toward Moyamensing, with a person identified as Mendoza running after him.TJ runs down the sidewalk while Mendoza runs down the street after him, before Mendoza quickly runs across the street, through two closely parked cars onto the sidewalk, asfootage by a pickup truck.
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