12/12/2021- 12:19 p.m.
Chicago – The family of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a Chicago police officer more than seven years ago has reached a $1.2 million lawsuit settlement with city officials.
Rios family attorney Mark Brown told reporters that the case was weeks away from a trial when the settlement was reached.
The family disputed accounts from the officer that Pedro Rios Jr. pointed a gun at the officer multiple times during a foot chase before the officer shot the teen in July 2014 along the border of Portage Park and Old Irving Park on the city’s Northwest Side.
Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, which preceded the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, investigated the shooting and ruled it justified.
Brown said that while Rios was carrying a gun at the time, there wasn’t evidence that he pulled it from his waistband before he was shot in the back.
A City Council committee was scheduled to consider the settlement on Monday
