WOODLAWN — Body-camera and surveillance video released Friday show two Illinois State Police officers fire more than a dozen shots and killing a 24-year-old man who initially had his back turned as his own firearm discharged during a struggle with the officers in Woodlawn last month.
The two officers, who have not been identified and are now on administrative leave amid an ongoing investigation, shot and killed Jalen Carpenter, of Markham, Illinois, while responding to a domestic battery call at 10:50 p.m. on April 15 in the 6500 block of South Champlain Avenue.
According to the footage released Friday, officers were responding to a call placed 10 minutes earlier by a passenger in a vehicle traveling on Interstate 57. She told an officer that she had been battered and threatened by the driver and called out locations while she stayed on the line. She eventually got out of the vehicle in the 6500 block of South Champlain Avenue and told the officer that she feared for her life because the driver had a weapon and was still in the area, according to police…