Home surveillance footage shows off-duty police officer shooting autistic teen without any provocation
Sergeant Khalil Muhammad had claimed he had shot Ricardo Hayes because the teen was about to pull a gun. However, video evidence proved that the the claim was false.
Video footage of a 2017 incident involving the shooting of a teenager refutes the Chicago Police's previous assertion that it was an armed confrontation. Released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), the grainy home security video shows Sergeant Khalil Muhammad shooting then-18-year-old Ricardo Hayes as he walked on a footpath in the city's South Side.
According to the Guardian, Hayes, who suffers from autism, had wandered away from his home at around 5 a.m. in the morning on August 13, 2017. The video opens with the teen running along a sidewalk before abruptly coming to a stop and turning around as Muhammad pulls up in his car.