Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart will announce a charging decision Thursday in Marcellis Stinnette's Waukegan shooting death.
Two lawsuits have been filed in the wake of a police shooting in Waukegan that left a young man dead and his girlfriend in the hospital.The Lake County State's attorney will make an announcement Thursday about charging decisions stemming from a Waukegan police shooting in 2020.A spokesperson for Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart confirmed the announcement would be in regards to an Oct.
What Waukegan police said started as a traffic stop investigating a suspicious vehicle quickly escalated to a police pursuit then a shooting, which was heard on a police dash camera video. In a civil suit filed on behalf of Stinnette's family, attorneys said police Officer Dante Salinas "discharged his firearm five times into the front and driver's side of driver, Tafara Williams' vehicle."
Police claim Williams, who survived, reversed toward the officer involved, but the lawsuit contends he was "in no immediate danger."Video released by the city of Waukegan shows the officer who fired the shots activated his body camera after the shots were fired.
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