A plainclothes Philadelphia police officer fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in the back Tuesday night, moments after a bullet was fired into an unmarked car, police said.
Police identified the youth as Thomas Siderio Jr., saying officers took him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a few minutes after the shooting. The police statement Wednesday described Siderio as white.
The officers activated the car’s emergency red and blue lights and then heard a gunshot and the rear passenger window shattering, police said. The other youth, a 17-year-old male who was not named, was taken into custody in the firearms case but was later released, police said.
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