From [HERE] and [HERE] A Chicago police officer shot and wounded an unarmed 13-year-old boy who ran from a car being sought in an Oak Park carjacking, a shooting captured on multiple cameras and now under investigation, officials said.

Chicago police officers at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday stopped the driver of a stolen car they suspected had been involved in the Oak Park carjacking near Chicago and Cicero avenues, police said. The boy, who had been in the car, got out and ran away as officers walked up to it, officials said. The driver of the car drove off.

Officers chased the boy to the 800 block of North Cicero Avenue, where one officer shot him, police said. The boy was hospitalized in serious condition, according to a Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) spokesperson.

Officers were trying “to stop a stolen vehicle wanted in connection with a vehicular hijacking from a neighboring suburb,” in the 800 block of North Cicero Avenue about 10:15 p.m., according to a statement from Chicago police.

Police would claim that as the boy ran, he “turned toward officers” briefly before one of them opened fire and shot the unarmed child.

“All of a sudden, I see a little guy wearing all black get out of the car and run toward the gas station, and his hands were up,” one witness who asked not to be identified  told ABC7.

“And I seen the cop run up to the boy and started shooting. That boy didn’t have no gun or nothing,” the witness said.

“They said, ‘Put your hands up, put your hands up!’ The boy’s hands were up. There’s other people out there that seen it. I got it all on my phone — his hands were up. He didn’t have a gun,” the witness said. “They shot him for no reason.”

“No shots were fired at officers,” Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said during a brief evening news conference at police headquarters Thursday.

COPA investigators, who probe police shootings, collected body camera footage from the officer who fired the shot, city surveillance video from the scene and “third-party” video of the incident, but the agency said it won’t be released, according to a statement. No weapon was recovered at the scene, officials said.

“Worse fear confirmed!” anti-violence group GoodKids MadCity tweeted after the shooting. “Especially knowing how this child will be handcuffed to the hospital bed, criminalized by the media & silenced from sharing their version of what happened, locked away in the” Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

Brown would not answer questions about where the boy was shot, or give any details about the officer who fired their weapon.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a statement Thursday, saying she has “full confidence” in the probe of the shooting.

“I am aware of the officer involved shooting that resulted in a thirteen-year-old being shot by a Chicago police officer yesterday evening,” the mayor said. “I have been in contact with Superintendent Brown and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, led by Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten, is actively investigating this matter. I have full confidence that COPA will investigate this incident expeditiously with the full cooperation of the Chicago Police Department.”  

The shooting comes a little more than a year after a Chicago police officer fatally shot another 13-year-old, Adam Toledo, during a foot chase in Little Village. In that instance, COPA leaders also initially said they could not release video of the shooting — though they eventually released it amid public pressure.

Video of his shooting — which showed Toledo had a gun, though he dropped it less than a second before an officer shot him — garnered national attention and led to protests in the city. Prosecutors eventually announced they will not pursue charges against the officer who shot Toledo.