I sent this to a friend, while the boy didn't have a gun in his hand at the moment he was shot, he provoked this.
He came home & then was gone for two days.
Why didn't his mom report him missing, again?
He was dead for two days before they knew who he was.
There is more to this than we know.
Elizabeth Toledo reported her son missing days before the shooting, she told Block Club. On Wednesday, two days after the shooting, police reached out to the family asking for a photo, she said. She thought they were asking for the missing persons report. But about a half hour later, they knocked on her door asking her to go to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office to identify his body, Elizabeth Toledo said.
“They told me I had to identify my son’s body and I couldn’t even see him, they showed me a picture of my son Adam for just a couple of seconds,” his mother said.
Adam Toledo attended Gary Elementary School, his mother said. He was a “happy boy” who played with Hot Wheels cars and liked to ride bikes with the youngest of his four siblings.
“He would cheer everyone up just with his smile, with his thoughts,” his mother said. “ …He was only a kid. [Police] could have done something else, not kill him…If they are trained to shoot, why shoot to kill him?”
On Friday afternoon, Don Terry, director of the Police Department’s Office of News Affairs, told Block Club that Adam Toledo was reported missing on March 26. The following day, police checked with the boy’s mother, who told them he had returned home.
She did not report him missing again, Terry said, so that case was considered closed. As for the delay in telling Adam Toledo’s mother about the killing, Terry said police spent two days trying to identify the boy’s body. He said they called Adam’s mother after seeing his description matched the recently closed missing person case.
http://blockclubchicago.org/2021/04/02/13-year-old-adam-toledos-mom-thought-her-son-was-missing-until-cops-came-knocking-2-days-after-killing-him/
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