Attorney Andrew Stroth discusses the death of Dexter Reed by police, during a press conference outside the 11th District Police Station in Chicago, on April 24, 2024. A lawsuit was filed against the City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department Officers, who fatally shot Reed during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park. The Cook County medical examiner’s office released Reed’s autopsy and toxicological reports Thursday, five weeks after he was fatally shot in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand.
Police body-worn camera footage, released by COPA earlier this month, showed one officer firing three more rounds at Reed as he was motionless in the street. A CPD source said 11 spent shell casings were found inside Reed’s SUV. The footage shows the officers exit an unmarked police vehicle, draw their weapons and repeatedly order Reed to roll down his SUV’s tinted windows. Reed initially complied and rolled down his window, but appeared to disregard the officers’ commands to roll down the window on the passenger side.
Along with video footage, COPA released copies of reports filled out by the four officers who fired their weapons. In those reports, the four said they fired a total of 79 rounds, less than the 96 initially reported last week.Sharon Fairley, a professor from practice at the University of Chicago Law School and former chief administrator of COPA, said each of the four officers who fired their guns will be required to explain why they expended each round they fired.