Prosecutors decline to charge Chicago police officers in shooting of teen, then a young man days later

CHICAGO — The Chicago police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Little Village last year will not face criminal charges, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced at a news conference Tuesday.

The officer who killed 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez in a shooting on the Northwest Side just days later also will not be charged, Foxx said.

Nearly a year after the shootings, prosecutors concluded that they could not meet the necessary burden of proof to bring charges, Foxx said during what she called a “somber announcement.”

“There are no winners in this very tragic situation,” she said.

In keeping with policy, the office of the Illinois State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor also reviewed the cases and agreed that the officers should not be charged, Foxx said.

Toledo was the youngest person to be fatally shot by Chicago police in years. His death sparked an outcry that only intensified after the release of graphic footage from body-worn cameras and surveillance video. In a split second, Toledo stops running from Officer Eric Stillman, tosses a gun behind a fence, turns toward the officer, raises his hands and is shot, video shows. All those actions happened “almost simultaneously,” Foxx said.

While surveillance footage captured from the other side of the fence